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 2301809Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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