 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 Seiten
...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." MSS. Conduitt. \ye The following inscription has been placed by Mr. Tumor on a stone tablet in Colsterworth... | |
 | 1822 - 852 Seiten
...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." This assertion has been construed, by Newton's friends, into a diffidence... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 Seiten
...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 troth lay all undiscovered before me." MSS. Conduilt. The following inscription has been placed by... | |
 | 1823 - 494 Seiten
...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...great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Tbe following «¡»guiar and truly whimsical wmenttf honorable is extracted from a Lincoln Mercury... | |
 | 1841 - 456 Seiten
...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 undibcovered before me. Harmlessness of Death. Death is the same harmless thing that a poor shepherd... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 578 Seiten
...been only like a boy playing on the era-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 Spence's Anecdote-, by SW Singer, page 54. 2L2 terial universe, as the bidden spring of the wonderful... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1825 - 238 Seiten
...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, whilst...great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." STERNE Was bred at Jesus College, Cambridge, where it is said he studied very little, laughed a great... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825 - 504 Seiten
...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." That enlightened and profound reasoner, Mr. Locke, in a letter to a person who asked the question,... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 Seiten
...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' — (See Turner's Collections from Town and Vicinity of Grant ham, 1806.) Such it is to feel our real... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 666 Seiten
...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...bent over him and taken his hand, and taught him to decypher the characters of her sacred language; who had lifted up before him her glorious veil, higher... | |
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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... 
