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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 author's printing and publishing assistant

Author - 1850 - 124 pages
...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." The Period . When a Sentence is complete and independent, it is followed by...
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Cyclopædia of English literature, Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother and no man is well pleased to have his undiscovered before me.' Chciterßelti. Surely Nature, who had given him the volumes of her greater...
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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...only like a boy playing on the, sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother rst, the chieftain uudis- ' covered before me.' Chesterfield. Surely Nature, who had given him the volumes of her greater...
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The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster]., Volumes 1-2

Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 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." Chesterfield. Surely Nature, who had given him the volumes of her greater...
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The solar system [by T. Dick].

Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 pages
...but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." 4. The subjects of astronomy to which...
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The Churchman's companion, Volume 11

1852 - 788 pages
...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...
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The Wesleyan methodist association magazine, Volume 10

1847 - 614 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." Such facts as the following illustrate the above sentiments. The nearest star...
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The Mechanic's organ, or, Journal for young men and women [afterw.] Voice of ...

384 pages
...have been 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.' We need not however go so far as to allow that all the knowledge obtained...
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A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Volume 1

Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 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." Numerous and ready were the pens and voices which mourned his decease and...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 5-6

1848 - 916 pages
...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...
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