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 | Thomas Dick - Future life - 1831 - 288 pages
...death, "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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth liy all undiscovered before... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Future life - 1831 - 288 pages
...death, "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 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1834 - 654 pages
...know/' said he, " what I may appear to the world ; but, to myself, 1 seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shelf, than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...— " 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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those,... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...know," said he, " what I may appear to the world ; but, to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." During the last ten years of his life, he would reply, when consulted about... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - Meteorology - 1834 - 420 pages
...appear to the world, but to myself, I seem to have been only like to a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now. and then finding a smoother...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me; * Voyez, " Melanges de Littcrature, &c." par M. d'Alembert. Tome iv. p. 202... | |
 | Anne Tallant - 1834 - 80 pages
...been only as a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him." Q. Who was Sir Isaac Newton?—what county gave birth to him ?—what were... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Lincolnshire (England) - 1834 - 480 pages
...been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The house in which Sir Isaac lived in St. Martin's St., Leicester Square,... | |
 | Thomas Martin - Great Britain - 1835 - 388 pages
...died,—' I know not what I may seem to the world; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' * 6. Instantice Crucis, or crucial instances, are so called because when there... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...died,—' I know not what I may seem to the world; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'* 6. Instantiee Cruets, or crucial instances, are so called because when there... | |
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