 | Bartholomew Prescot - Astronomy - 1822 - 292 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 36 ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." Never, I believe, did the mind of Newton form... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1822 - 494 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, arrd 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." — Thornton's Anecdotes. ROUSSEAC AND HOWARD.... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...to myself, I seem to have heen 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 groat ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Tue following singular am} truly whimsical amende... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the ma-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocetm of 'J'ru'li lay all undiscovered before me." See Spence's Anecdote*, by SW Singer, page... | |
 | Christian life - 1880 - 374 pages
...myself I seein to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself with now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst a great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." — SIR ISAAC NEWTON, a little while before his... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 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' — (See Turner's Collections from Town and Vicinity... | |
 | William Malkin - Christianity - 1825 - 504 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." That enlightened and profound reasoner, Mr. Locke,... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1832 - 442 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." What a lesson to ordinary men! to the vanity... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 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." See also Nichols's Illustr. of Literature, vol.... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - American poetry - 1826 - 650 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." CHESTERFIELD. Surely Nature, who had given him... | |
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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... 
