 | 1823 - 700 Seiten
...be ouly like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself m now and i hen fmding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the...great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'' InJieritance by Females. — If Stnibo's information be correct, among the CanUibrians, females alone... | |
 | 1834 - 654 Seiten
...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 me." During the last ten years of his life, he would reply, when consulted about any passage in his works,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 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.'* — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those, especially, who have never... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 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." — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those, especially, who have never... | |
 | 1833 - 814 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 undiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — to those especially who have never... | |
 | 1833 - 310 Seiten
...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and theft finding a smoother pebble of a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all tmdiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — tb those... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1834 - 480 Seiten
...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...great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The house in which Sir Isaac lived in St. Martin's St., Leicester Square, is still standing : it is... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1834 - 388 Seiten
...only Tike to 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; * Voyez, " Melanges de Litterature, &c." par M. d'AIembert. Tome iv. p. 202 and 203. an admission in... | |
 | 1834 - 222 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 undiscovered before me.' "In the religious and moral character of our author there is much to admire and imitate. While he exhibited... | |
 | William Woodley (C.R.N.) - 1834 - 100 Seiten
...only like a boy playing upon 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."—Turner's Coll. p. 173. Let us, therefore, viewing the fallibility of the... | |
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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... 
