| 1851 - 344 Seiten
...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...general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with a sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount... | |
| 1812 - 570 Seiten
...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the eflect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression...'design and last result, he •would be overwhelmed by this sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount... | |
| 1887 - 430 Seiten
...it is liy this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pick-axe, or of one impression of the spade with the general design and last result, he would be... | |
| Maison, N. & Kumar - 1964 - 264 Seiten
...; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pjckaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be... | |
| Wren & Martin - 434 Seiten
...perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be... | |
| 1849 - 780 Seiten
...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effort of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spado, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion... | |
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