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. If a man was to compare the
effect of a single stroke of the pick-ax, 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 continued, in time surmo
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