 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 Christian philosopher - Pàgina 319per Thomas Dick - 1840Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Life - 1854 - 192 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 616 pàgines
...the glory of his inventions, if his friends and countrymen had not been more jealous of his honour than he was himself. He said, a little before his...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Dr. T. Dick. BIOGRAPHY. MR. JOHN KETLEY, OF ERBISTOCK. MB. JOHN KETLEY... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 584 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 902 pàgines
...then finding a pebble or я prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay »11 undiscovered before me.' The same sentiment might...been illustrated from the lives of Bacon, Locke, Dr. Boerliaave, llervey. Niewentyt, Kay, Derham, the Abbe Pinche, Bonnet, and other eminent characters,... | |
 | 1856 - 602 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1857 - 350 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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