 | Religion - 1828 - 586 pages
...death, that he appeared to himself like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him. How poor, then, arc the acquirements, and how... | |
 | 596 pages
...; but to myself I seem to be 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." Anecdote of Dr. Desaguliers. — Being invited... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself 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.' New Discoveries. — Almost every scientific... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." You have often seen a man raising a stone by... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - Poets, English - 1833 - 364 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 the vanity and presumption... | |
 | 1833 - 814 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.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 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 the vanity and presumption... | |
 | 1840 - 506 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 Vol. XVI.— 2 D the great ocean of trulh lay all undiscovered before me.' (Turner's C<i!lerlioHS relative... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1834 - 610 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...Brewster's Life of Sir I. Newton, p. 338 ; Powell, 369. Few great minds estimate highly their own achievements : these are too natural to them to be felt... | |
 | 1834 - 222 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.' "In the religious and moral character of our... | |
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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... 
