 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
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...themselves in their own way, but hardly a whole nation.—Sdden. DLXVm. 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...in their own way, but hardly a whole nation. — Selden. DLXVIII. All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united Avith canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1830 - 416 pages
...the celebrated English writer, has very forcibly observed, that " all the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke with the pickaie, or of one impression... | |
 | 1832 - 872 pages
...familiar. It has been well observed by an elegant writer, that " all the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effects ofa single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression... | |
 | 1832 - 548 pages
...PERSEVERANCE. ALL the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are the resulls of perseverance. It is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries arc united by canals ; it is therefore of the utmost importance that those who have nny intention of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...cannot weary, and contrivance which impediments cannot exhaust. All the performances of human art, ter-action of a false * lor ever bid defiance to...Homer, though they may give way in time to the@Q was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pick-axe, or of one impression of the spade, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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... | |
 | 1838 - 274 pages
...insupportable even to himself. ST. EPHRAIM ; Book of the Fathers. ALL the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...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 pickaxe, or of one impression... | |
 | 1838 - 272 pages
...insupportable even to himself. ST. ErHRAiM ; Book of the Fathers. ALL the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances...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 pickaxe, or of one impression... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 pages
...delightfully in one year.— Milton. PXXXVI. Effects of Perseverance.—All th« 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 a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with... | |
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