 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.  Cheveley, Or, The Man of Honour - Page 102by Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton - 1839Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...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 the spade, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. . All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with... | |
 | Alexander Beatson - 1820 - 198 pages
...give it an entry in my journal. But, as Doctor Johnson observes, " All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance." It is not by a single operation, that the Chinese and Indian ploughs * Blackheath. perform those wonders... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...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 the spade, with... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 638 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare die effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression of the spade, with... | |
 | 1823 - 428 pages
...impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, arc instances of the resistless force of perseverance:...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 the spade, with... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the (marry becomes a pyramid, and that distant conntries are united with canals. If a man was to compare... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 466 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this '^ quarry becomes a pyramid, and that tf: tries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 526 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...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 the spade, with... | |
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