 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
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...only like а 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." See also Nichols's " Illustr. of Literature," vol. iv. p. 16. — TUDD. 1... | |
 | 1856 - 602 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." His body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, was buried in Westminster... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 pages
...rimy appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on thf sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscover* ed before me." And is it reasonable to believe,... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1857 - 350 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 yet these 'smoother pebbles' which he had found, were the laws of gravitation... | |
 | 1847 - 900 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 undiscovered before me." A further stimulus to the constant increase of our stores of knowledge lies... | |
 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 486 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."t — R. * Additions from MS. B. reader the following beautiful passage from... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 144 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." "He was generous and charitable" says Mr. Conduitt, "without bounds : he used... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1858 - 482 pages
...only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all unexplored before me." Turn we now to contemplate another stream from this great Fountain,—the sparkling... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 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." "He was generous and charitable" says Mr. Conduitt, "without bounds : he used... | |
 | D. Scott Bennett, Allan C. Stam III - 2009 - 302 pages
...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —isaac newton In this chapter, we test some hypotheses about the onset and... | |
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