 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...  Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson ... - Page 200by Samuel Johnson - 1855Full view - About this book
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...disproportion. But these petty operations incessantly repeated in time surmount the greatest obstacles, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings."1 But this is but a faint type of the changes produced by the same power upon the mind. It... | |
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