 | 1806 - 576 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...than he was before ; as a little hand that strives to gnup н nighty globe is thrown back ly the reaction of its own effort to coruprehend. It may be given... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 492 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe, is thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend. — It may be given to a Hale,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 484 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe, is thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend. — It may be given to a Hale,... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 348 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stinted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour, to approach it would have only removed...; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale, or... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 354 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stinted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...before; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the reaction of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale, or... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...before: as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe is thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale or... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject ? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...was before, as a little hand that strives to grasp a mihgty globe, is thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given i to... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1818 - 356 pages
...what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged to a reception of the subject? The endeavour to approach it would have only removed...: as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe, is thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale or... | |
 | 1818 - 616 pages
...you, in the face of your country, before all the world, and to your beard, you are not an honest man." removed him to a greater distance than he was before...; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe, ii thrown back by the re-action of its own effort to comprehend. It may be given to an Hale... | |
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... delivered with the fretful smile of irritated self-sufficiency and disconcerted arrogance; or even, if he could be dragged by his fears to a consideration of the question, by what miracle could the pigmy capacity of a stunted pedant be enlarged... 
