 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 páginas
...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 lay all undiscovered before me." See also Nichols's Illustr. of Literature, vol. iv. p. 16. TODD. Ver.... | |
 | 1832 - 442 páginas
...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 lay all undiscovered before me." What a lesson to ordinary men! to the vanity and presumption of philosophers!... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1826 - 414 páginas
...to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, 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,... | |
 | 596 páginas
...but to myself I seem to be 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." Anecdote of Dr. Desaguliers. — Being invited to an illustrious company,... | |
 | 1828 - 586 páginas
...death, that he appeared to himself like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him. How poor, then, arc the acquirements, and how pitiable the pride of tho... | |
 | 1829 - 460 páginas
...myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself 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.' New Discoveries. — Almost every scientific journal announces the discovery... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." You have often seen a man raising a stone by means of a strong bar of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 páginas
...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 lay all undiscovered before me." — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those,... | |
 | 1833 - 814 páginas
...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 lay all undiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — to those... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 páginas
...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 lay all undiscovered before me.'* — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those,... | |
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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... 
