 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
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1834 - 486 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 360 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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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