 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 - 1782 - 482 pages
...performances of we look \vith-praife, or wonder, are inftanfces of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance'.' It is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals r-rfcistkefrefotiejof the -utnidftfirnpQEtance^thafcthbfeiSBlitf;... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...art, at which we look with pra'rfe or wonder, areinftancesof the refirflefs force of per* feverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effeft of a fmgle ftroke of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 466 pages
...art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was. to. compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 626 pages
...art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance: it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of... | |
 | Johann Georg Zimmermann - 1795 - 468 pages
...at which we look with praifc " or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force " of perfeverance : it is by this that the quarry " becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries "are united by canals. If a man was to com*c pare the effect of a fingle ftroke of... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - 1795 - 502 pages
...art, at which we look ' with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance. It is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united by canals. If a man were to compare the firft effect of a fingle ftroke... | |
 | 1801 - 342 pages
...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 countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 460 pages
...art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a fingle ftroke of... | |
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1802 - 460 pages
...art, at which we look with praife or wonder, are inftances of the refiftlefs force of perfeverance. It is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that diftant countries are united by canals. If a man were to compare the firft effect of a iingle ftroke... | |
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