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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... "
The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th] - Page 230
1809
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1

1833 - 310 pages
...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and theft finding a smoother pebble of a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all tmdiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — tb those...
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The History of the County of Lincoln,: From the Earliest Period to the ...

Thomas Allen - 1834 - 480 pages
...been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The house in which Sir Isaac lived in St. Martin's St., Leicester Square,...
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The People's Magazine, Volume 1

1834 - 222 pages
...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 author there is much to admire...
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The Anatomy of the Seasons: Weather Guide Book, and Perpetual Companion to ...

Patrick Murphy - 1834 - 388 pages
...only like to 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;' * Voyez, " Melanges de Litterature, &c." par M. d'Aletnbert. Tome iv. p. 202...
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A Treatise on the Divine System of the Universe

William Woodley (C.R.N.) - 1834 - 100 pages
...only like a boy playing upon 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."— Turner's Coll. p. 173. Let us, therefore, viewing the fallibility of the...
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The Works of Lord Byron: With His Letters and Journals, and His Life, Volume 16

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 358 pages
...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 of philosophers; to those,...
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Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Works

Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...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.'* 6. Instantice Crucis, or crucial instances, are so called because when there...
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The Works of Thomas Dick, Volumes 1-4

Thomas Dick - 1836 - 682 pages
...may appear to the world] but to mywlf I seem to have 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, while the цгеЫ ocean of truth lay all undi«*overed before me." And is it reasonable lobfhuvr,...
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 7

Englishmen - 1836 - 256 pages
...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." " If I have done the public any service in this way," he writes also to Dr...
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Meteorology: Considered in Its Connexion with Astronomy, Climate, and the ...

Patrick Murphy - 1836 - 308 pages
...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." And this modesty of Sir Isaac Newton, as observed by his able biographer,...
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