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" I know not what the world will think of my labours, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea-shore; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while... "
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by Richard Cockburn Maclaurin - 1909 - 251 pages
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Biographical Sketches of Eccentric Characters

1832 - 644 pages
...not, as Fontenelle says, ever having had leisure to think of it. He writes of himself as follows : " I know not what the world will think of my labors,...ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me." JOHN BENBOW. IT has often been remarked, that British seamen are distinguished for a species of eccentricity...
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Biographical Sketches of Eccentric Characters

1832 - 512 pages
...think of it. He writes of himself as follows : * I know not what the world will think of my labors, bW to myself it seems that I have been but as a child...more agreeably variegated, than another, while the tmmense KMĀ» iftrutit extended itself mupforaf before me." 3* IT has often boon roinorknd, that British...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...of my labours, but, to myself, it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea- shore ; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and...ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me."* This profound conviction of the numerous discoveries that still remained to be made, did not, however,...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...of my labours, but, to myself, it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea- shore ; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and...ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me."* This profound conviction of the numerous discoveries that still remained to be made, did not, however,...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...have been but as a child playing on the sea- shore ; now finding some pebble rather more pelished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated...ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me."* This profound conviction of the numerous discoveries that still remained to be made, did not, however,...
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Conversations on Nature and Art

1839 - 352 pages
...the Egyptians and the Hindoos. MARY. Do not these gipsies speak Englishl * " I know not," said lie, " what the world will think of my labors, but, to myself,...ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me." THEIR MIGRATION. 237 MRS. F. Not among themselves; they then converse in a jargon or language unintelligible...
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Conversations on Nature and Art

1839 - 352 pages
...the Egyptians and the Hindoos. MARY. Do not these gipsies speak English? * " I know not," said he, " what the world will think of my labors, but, to myself,...immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before roe." THEIR MIORATION. 237 Not among themselves; they then converse in a jargon or language unintelligible...
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The General Baptist repository, and Missionary observer [afterw.] The ...

1851 - 592 pages
...to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea-shore, now finding some pebple rather more polished, and now some shell rather more...immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me."f It would appear, then, that the tendency of enlarged knowledge is to bumble rather than to puff...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 39

1842 - 452 pages
...not what the world will think of my labours, but to myself, it seems that I have been but as a chUd playing on the sea-shore, now finding some pebble...ocean of truth extended itself unexplored before me." And Mozart, the great musical composer, is reported to have said, a few hours before his death, " Now...
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The Child's companion

1857 - 398 pages
...everybody, he meekly said, ' I know not what the world may think of my labours ; but to myself it aeems that I have been but as a child playing on the seashore;...another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself before me." Thus, you see, like the ancient shepherd, the more he knew of God's works, the less he...
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