 | 1852 - 788 Seiten
...been only like a boy pl.iying on the sea-shore and diverting myself, in now and then findmg a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' And yet the planets, of whose laws he was the first interpreter, are but the... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 Seiten
...beautiful words which he is reported to have uttered a short time previous to his death. " I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Numerous and ready were the pens and voices which mourned his decease and... | |
 | 1848 - 916 Seiten
...contained, he was but like a youth playing on the sea-shore, finding now a smoother pechle, and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before him." The Banner of the Truth, or Scottish Calvinietic Magazine. No. I. This small... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 322 Seiten
...not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 316 Seiten
...not know what I may appear to• the world ; but to myself I seem like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 318 Seiten
...not know what 1 may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me/' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...seem to the world, but as to myself, I teem to have been only like a boy playing on the >ea-»hora, , to reign over then), that he might live in glory...reason, than that it might be good for them and their undiscovered before me.' — Sptnce'g Antcdota, p. fi4. Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 Seiten
...havo been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The same sentiment might have been illustrated from the lives of Bacon, Locke,... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1851 - 494 Seiten
...Newton, after all the discoveries by which he enlightened and astonished the world, " I seem to myself to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me ;" but much more truly may the Christian say this of Christ. Oldest and most... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 Seiten
...what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on tie sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.' Chattrfidd. Surely Nature, who had given him tie volumes of her greater mysteries... | |
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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 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... 
