 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 460 Seiten
...mentioned : " 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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me."—Or. Brewster's... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1836 - 308 Seiten
...short time before his death, " 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...ordinary ; whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." And this modesty of Sir Isaac Newton, as observed by his able biographer,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 256 Seiten
...observed : " 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." " If I have done the public any service in this way," he writes also to Dr... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 360 Seiten
...— " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like aboy 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,... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1836 - 290 Seiten
...to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." STERNE Was bred at Jesus College, Cambridge, where it is said he studied very... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 306 Seiten
...before his 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... | |
 | William Chambers - 1837 - 352 Seiten
...sentiment: ' 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...pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the 90 great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' " In the religious and moral character of... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1838 - 448 Seiten
...mentioned : " 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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me." — Dr. firewater's... | |
 | Joseph C. Lovejoy, Owen Lovejoy - 1838 - 398 Seiten
...' I do not 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 seashore, and diverting...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' This is undoubtedly... | |
 | Joseph Cammet Lovejoy, Owen Lovejoy - 1838 - 390 Seiten
...said he, ' what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playingon 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.' This is undoubtedly... | |
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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 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... 
