| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 páginas
...weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression... | |
| 1810 - 464 páginas
...weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 páginas
...weary, and contri» vance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick -axe, or of one impression... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 páginas
...impediments cannot exhaust. Ail the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, ure instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes -» pyramid, and that distant countries are united with cauals. If a man was to compare the effect... | |
| 1811 - 394 páginas
...perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pick-axes or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed... | |
| John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - 1815 - 308 páginas
...art," says Doctor Johnson, " at which we look with praise or wonder, ' are instances of thejresistless force of perseverance. It ' is by this that the quarry...and ' that distant countries are united by canals ; it ' is therefore of the utmost importance, that those, ' who have any intention of deviating from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 páginas
...weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 páginas
...performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the Tesistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1816 - 624 páginas
...we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance ; it is by this the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals ; small operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties j mountains are... | |
| 1817 - 780 páginas
...will not be displeased to see inserted in this place : " All the performances of human art, at whioh we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pick, axe, or of one impression... | |
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