 | 1806 - 348 pages
...consider from what unpromising beginnings the most useful productions of art have probably arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 380 pages
...consider from what unpromising beginnings the most useful productions of art have probably arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 372 pages
...arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump laj concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 352 pages
...he saw the first VOL. I. " E sand or ashes, by a casual intcnseness of heat melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities,...that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniencies of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world? Yet... | |
 | 1810 - 464 pages
...consider from what unpromising beginnings the most useful productions of art have probably arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 462 pages
...consider from what unpromising beginnings the most useful productions of art have probably arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities-, wonld have imagined, that in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 394 pages
...consider from what unpromising beginnings the most useful productions' of art have probably arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescenses, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...consider from what unpromising beginnings the most useful productions of art have probably arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted Into a metalline form, rugged with excrescenses, and clouded •with impurities, would have imagined, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...consider from what unpromising beginnings the most useful productions of art have probably arisen. Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in... | |
 | 1818 - 488 pages
...the writer I have just quoted, and. the passage is an admirable specimen of turgid eloquence ; who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined that in... | |
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Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life,... 
