 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 620 Seiten
...mi the seashore, and diverting myself in now und then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier «hell than ordinary-, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." Cluxti-rfirl.il. Surely Nature, who had given him the volumes of her greater mysteries to umtral ;... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 764 Seiten
...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother 1* Tell me, Knife-grinder, how came you to grind...distraining? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your sacred language ; who had lifted up before him her glorious veil, higher than етег yet for mortal,... | |
 | 1847 - 614 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." Such facts as the following illustrate the above sentiments. The nearest star is reckoned to be at... | |
 | 384 Seiten
...have been 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.' We need not however go so far as to allow that all the knowledge obtained here is necessarily either... | |
 | 1852 - 788 Seiten
...been only like a boy pl.iying on the sea-shore and diverting myself, in now and then findmg a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the...great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' And yet the planets, of whose laws he was the first interpreter, are but the pebbles ; the universe,... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 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." Numerous and ready were the pens and voices which mourned his decease and chronicled his glory. The... | |
 | David Lester RICHARDSON - 1848 - 580 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." H.—Is it possible that Newton had that passage of Milton in his mind, which was applied the other... | |
 | Robert Falkner Hessey - 1848 - 74 Seiten
...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." Turner's Collections relative to the town of Grantham. 16 TUBUS ASTKONOM1CUS. Sic animos offusa tenet... | |
 | 1848 - 916 Seiten
...contained, he was but like a youth playing on the sea-shore, finding now a smoother pechle, and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before him." The Banner of the Truth, or Scottish Calvinietic Magazine. No. I. This small... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 760 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.1 Chesterfield. Surely Nature, who had given him the volumes of her greater... | |
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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... 
