 If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Seite 281von Samuel Johnson - 1816Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1785 - 596 Seiten
...bounded, by the /lender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance that thofe who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation fuperior to names hourly ("wept away by time among the refufe of fame, fliould add to tlieir reafon,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 Seiten
...bounded, by the (lender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance that thofe who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation fuperior to names hourly fwept away by time among the refufe of fame, fhould add to their reafon, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...bounded, by the flender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance that thole who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation fuperior to names hourly fwept away by time among the refule of fame, fhould add to their reafon, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 Seiten
...bounded, by the flender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance that thofe who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation fuperior to names hourly fwept away by time among the refufe of fame, fhould add to their reafon, and... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1794 - 446 Seiten
...bounded, by the flender force of human " beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance " that thofe who have any intention of deviating " from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation fuperior to names hourly fwept " away by time among the refufe of fame, " fhould add to their reafon... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1795 - 468 Seiten
...bounded, by the flender force of human " beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance " that thofe who have any intention of deviating " from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation fuperior to names hourly fwept away by time .among the refufe of fame, fhould add to their reafon and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 Seiten
...bounded, by the ilender force of hvman beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance that thofe who have any intention <of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation fuperiour to names hourly fwept away by time among the rcfufe of fame, fhoukl add to their reafon,... | |
 | 1801 - 342 Seiten
...bounded, by the (lender force of human beings. It is therefore of the utmoft importance that thofe who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a -reputation fuperior to names hourly fwept away by time among the refufe of fame, fhould add to their reafon, and... | |
 | 1803 - 322 Seiten
...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly'continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains...the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 Seiten
...by this - that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals; it is therefore of the utmost importance' that those...who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roada of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among therefuse... | |
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