...I seem 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/' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially...

...I seem 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." What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially...

...I seem 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." What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially...

...been only like a boy playing on the aea-ahora, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother , Hir girdelee trutb lay all undiscovered before mo.' — Spence'r AnccdoU*, p. A4. Who read« Incessantly, and to...

...little before his death, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself 1 seem to havo been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The same sentiment might have been illustrated from the lives of Bacon, Locke,...

...may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on th» 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 undiscovered before me." And is it reasonable to believe, that...

...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 ;" but much more truly may the Christian say this of Christ. Oldest and most...

...to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him.' There is a great distinction between wisdom and knowledge which is finely...

...been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." His tranquil character is shown in the fact, that some quibbling philosophers...

...have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myselt 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.' All honour and success to those who are constructing rafts and barks for the...