 | 1801 - 342 pages
...afide, but 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 inftances of the the refiftlefs force of perfeverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 460 pages
...afide, but 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 inftances of fhe reiiftlefs force of perfeverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 322 pages
...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. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the rrsisjtless force of perseverance. It is 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... | |
 | 1817 - 798 pages
...art, at which we look wi'li 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 canal«. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 380 pages
...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 coun'.ries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of... | |
 | 1806 - 348 pages
...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. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - Loneliness - 1808 - 430 pages
...art, at which we look with piaise 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 by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke with... | |
 | American literature - 1808 - 356 pages
...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 by canals. If a man w.as to compare the effect of a single stroke with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 372 pages
...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. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of... | |
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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. 
