 If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, 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,...  Cheveley, Or, The Man of Honour - Page 102by Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 pages
...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...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains... | |
 | E S. P - 1874 - 588 pages
...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...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...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 the pickaxe,...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains... | |
 | Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore - 1878 - 590 pages
...countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of an impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he \vould be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion. Yet those petty operations, incessantly... | |
 | 1879 - 542 pages
...canals. If a man \vere to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion. Yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 pages
...distant countries are united with 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...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains... | |
 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - 1881 - 658 pages
...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 the pick-axe, or of one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion... | |
 | James Crowther - 1882 - 204 pages
...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...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion. Yet those petty operations incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pages
...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...overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those little operations incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains... | |
 | 1891 - 330 pages
...canals. If a man were to compare the effect of a single stroke with a pick-axe, or of one impression of a spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time... | |
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