 | George Grant - 1849 - 322 Seiten
...I seem 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." What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 318 Seiten
...I seem 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/' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...been only like a boy playing on the aea-ahora, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of trutb lay all undiscovered before mo.' — Spence'r AnccdoU*, p. A4. Who read« Incessantly, and to... | |
 | Author - 1850 - 124 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." The Period . A Period is sometimes admitted between two Sentences, though they may be connected by... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 Seiten
...only like a boy playing on tho веа-sliore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the...ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'— Spena'i Antedata, p. S4. Who read» Incessantly, and to his reading brings not А чимг and judgment... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 Seiten
...havo 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, whilst the...great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The same sentiment might have been illustrated from the lives of Bacon, Locke, Dr. Boerhaave, Hervey,... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1851 - 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 ;" but much more truly may the Christian say this of Christ. Oldest and most experienced Christian... | |
 | 1851 - 808 Seiten
...to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him.' There is a great distinction between wisdom and knowledge which is finely... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 Seiten
...have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myselt 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.' All honour and success to those who are constructing rafts and barks for the voyage. Let them launch... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 Seiten
...been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the...great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." His tranquil character is shown in the fact, that some quibbling philosophers made it a practice to... | |
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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... 
