| Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 lehte
...ocean." ''•'.'' Plaaif anl ' Ail the performances of we look \vith-praife, or wonder, are inftanfces of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance'.' It is by...becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals r-rfcistkefrefotiejof the -utnidftfirnpQEtance^thafcthbfeiSBlitf; have any intention of... | |
| 1785 - 596 lehte
...art, at which we look with pra'rfe or wonder, areinftancesof the refirflefs force of per* feverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effeft of a fmgle ftroke of the pick-ax, or of one impreffion... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 lehte
...contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of...becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of the pick-ax, or of one impreffion... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All'the performances of human art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of...becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was. to. compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of the pick-ax, or of one impreffion... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 lehte
...contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of...becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of the pick-axe, or of one impreffion... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1794 - 446 lehte
...wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force tt of perfeverance: it is by this that the quarry * c becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries " are united by canals. If a man was to com" pare the efFect of a fingle ftroke of the pick" axe, or of one impreffion of a fpade, with the... | |
| Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - 1795 - 502 lehte
...perfijiing is indeed aflonifhing, fince all the performances of human art, at which we look ' with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of...that diftant countries are united by canals. If a man were to compare the firft effect of a fingle ftroke of the pick-axe or fpade, with the general defign... | |
| Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1800 - 410 lehte
...has very forcibly obferved, that " all the performances of " human art, at which we look with praife or " wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of " perfeverance : it is by this that the quarry betc comes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are " united by canals. If a man was to compare the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 lehte
...contrivance which impediments cannot txhauil. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of...becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of the pick-axe, or of one impreffion... | |
| 1801 - 342 lehte
...exhauft. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the the refiftlefs force of perfeverance : it is by this...becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of the pick-ax, or of one impreffion... | |
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