 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1784 - 340 pages
...afide, but conftancy which fatigues cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All the performances of human art, at which we look...becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effe<3 of a fingle ftroke of the pick-ax, or of one impreffion... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...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 pages
...afide, but conftancy which far! tigues cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All the performances of human art, at which we look...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 - English literature - 1787
...but conftancy which fatigues cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All'the performances of human art, at which we look with praife...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 pages
...afide, but conftancy which fatigues cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All the performances of human art, at which we look...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...afide, hut conftancy which fatigues cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhauft. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inlkancesof rhcivfmlcls force of perfeverance : it is by this that the quarry becemcs a pyramid, and... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1794 - 446 pages
...and good. " The great art to (c learn much," fays LOCKE, " is to under(c take a little at a time." DR. JOHNSON, the celebrated Englifh writer, has very..." or 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... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Solitude - 1800 - 410 pages
...a little at a time." Dr. Johnfen, the celebrated Englifh writer, has very forcibly obferved, that " all the performances of " human art, at which we look...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 pages
...afide, but conftancy which fatigues cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot txhauil. All the performances of human art, at which we look...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... | |
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All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. 
