 The endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was 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.  Curran and His Contemporaries - Σελίδα 140των Charles Phillips - 1851 - 595 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Philpot CURRAN (Right Hon.) - 1805 - 448 σελίδες
...only removed him to a greater diftance than he was before ; as a little hand that ftrives to grafp a mighty globe, is thrown back by the re-action of...its own effort to comprehend. — It may be given to an Hale, or an Hardwicke, to difcover and retraft a miftake ; the errors of iuch men are only fpecks... | |
 | 1806 - 576 σελίδες
...discover and retract a mistake ; the erwrs of ouch men are only specks that rise for a moment, upou the surface of a splendid luminary ; consumed by its heat or irradiated by its light, they soon purge and disappear; b«t the perversenesses of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 484 σελίδες
...endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before ; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe,...Hardwicke, to discover and retract a mistake ; the errours of such men are only specks that arise for a moment upon the surface of a splendid luminary... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 492 σελίδες
...endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before ; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe,...Hardwicke, to discover and retract a mistake ; the errours of such men are only specks that arise for a moment upon the surface of a splendid luminary... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 354 σελίδες
...The endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe...by its heat, or irradiated by its light, they soon purge and disappear ? but the perversenesses of a mean and narrow intellect is like the excrescences... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 348 σελίδες
...endeavour, to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before ; as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe...effort to comprehend. It may be given to a Hale, or a Hurdwicke, to discover and retract a mistake ; the errors of such men are only specks that arise for... | |
 | 1816 - 658 σελίδες
...The endeavour to approach it would have only removed him to a greater distance than he was before: as a little hand that strives to grasp a mighty globe...men are only specks that arise for a moment upon, die surface of a splendid luminary; consumed by its heat, or irradiated by its light, they soon purge... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 346 σελίδες
...removed him to a greater distance than he 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 77 to an Hale, or an Hardwicke, to discover and retract a misi take ; the errors of such men are only... | |
 | William O'Regan - 1817 - 342 σελίδες
...removed him to a greater distance than he 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 an Hale, or an Hardwicke, to discover and retract a misf. take ; the errors of such men are only... | |
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