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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. "
Solitude Considered with Respect to Its Influence Upon the Mind and the Heart - Page 159
by Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1799
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The Rambler, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English essays - 1809 - 352 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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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volume 1

1810 - 464 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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 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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Works, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 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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The Leeds Correspondent, Volume 1

John Ryley, John Gawthorp, John Whitley - Mathematics - 1815 - 308 pages
..." at which we look with praise or wonder, ' are instances of thejresistless force of perseverance. It ' is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid; and ' that distant countries are united by canals ; it ' is therefore of the utmost importance, that those, '...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 4

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 524 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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The European Magazine, and London Review, Volume 72

1817 - 646 pages
...at -ftlu.-li 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 was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a...
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The Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature, Volume 12

Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...art, at whioh 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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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 368 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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 462 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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