 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
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 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... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 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 all lay undiscovered before me." This modest estimation of his own powers was the natural result of... | |
 | 1854 - 654 pages
...inventions, if his friends and countrymen had not been more jealous of his honour than he was himself. He said, a little before his death, " I do not know what...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Dr.T.Diclc. TEMPERANCE. You know the mean provision that John the Baptist,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 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... | |
 | Life - 1854 - 192 pages
...are like children playing on the sea-shore, and diverting ourselves, now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered before us. But what we know not now, we shall know hereafter. Now we see through... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1854 - 360 pages
...but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, 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... | |
 | 1855 - 614 pages
...inventions, if his friends and countrymen had not been more jealous of his honour than he was himself. He said, a little before his death, " I do not know what...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Dr. T. Dick. BIOGRAPHY. MR. JOHN KETLEY, OF ERBISTOCK. MB. JOHN KETLEY... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 584 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." 1 The following anecdote is recorded by Conduitt, as showing Sir Isaac's indifference... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 pages
...been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself 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 especially... | |
 | 1855 - 554 pages
...been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself 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 especially... | |
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