 | 1820 - 544 pages
...to myself, I seem to hare been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' — Rnnuay. Ti not at all improbable that Sir... | |
 | 1820 - 774 pages
...myself, I seem to hare been only like a boy playing on the sea. shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."— RAMSAY. " Hir Isaac Newton, though so deep... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 866 pages
...myself, I seem to have been ouly like a boy plaving on tiic sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — llamtay. 'Tis not at all improbable that... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 322 pages
...Bolingbroke. NEWTON. have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."— Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...myself, I seem, to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' ' ' , THE ENGLISH MONTHS. — FEBRUARY. WINTER... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 318 pages
...to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 852 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." This assertion has been construed, by Newton's friends,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1879 - 1042 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' Is not the infinite greatness of the soul expressed... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 940 pages
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." MSS. Conduitt. \ye The following inscription... | |
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I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth... 
