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" 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 230
1809
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous ...

George Grant - 1849 - 318 pages
...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...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous ...

George Grant - 1849 - 316 pages
...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...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: Containing an Account of His Numerous ...

George Grant - 1849 - 324 pages
...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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 710 pages
...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...
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The Complete Works of Thomas Dick, Volume 2

Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 pages
...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,...
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The Works of Thomas Dick ...

Thomas Dick - 1850 - 684 pages
...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...
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Sermons Preached in China

Walter Macon Lowrie - 1851 - 494 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 ;" but much more truly may the Christian say this of Christ. Oldest and most...
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The Monthly Christian spectator, Volume 1

1851 - 808 pages
...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...
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Sketches of English Literature from the Fourteenth to the Present Century

Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...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...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 45

James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 pages
...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...
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