 | Thomas Dick - 1829 - 308 페이지
...have been only like a boy playing on the 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 after a glimpse of the boundless... | |
 | 1832 - 698 페이지
...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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." To some, perhaps, such language may seem to savor of affectation.... | |
 | 1838 - 508 페이지
...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; while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." When speaking of that modesty which becomes the Christian, and especially... | |
 | William Rhind - 1830 - 262 페이지
...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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." From the conclusions of this great philosopher, as deduced from the... | |
 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 페이지
...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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — 'to... | |
 | 1832 - 240 페이지
...been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great Ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." IMPROVEMENT IN INNS. Almost every public-house in Wurtemberg, and... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1835 - 40 페이지
...have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in finding now and then a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."* But whether the progress of any particular discovery toward a general... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 306 페이지
...have been only like a boy playing on the 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 after a glimpse of the boundless... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 페이지
...have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in finding now and then a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'f * " Ceternm editio jam perfecta erat, illiusque exemplum Kheticus... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1838 - 370 페이지
...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay ali undiscovered before me." — Brewster's Life of Newton, pp. 300,301. Ed.New York, 1832. 12.... | |
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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, while the great ocean of truth... 
