...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...

...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." Numerous and ready were the pens and voices which mourned his decease...

...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...

...the world ; but to myself 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...

...the world ; but to myself 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...

...the world ; but to myself 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...

...myself, I Mem to have been only like a boy playing on the aea-ahora, and diverting myself in now and ught full cieñe and wcl, Hir girdelee trutb lay all undiscovered before mo.' — Spence'r AnccdoU*, p. A4. Who read« Incessantly, and to...

...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,...

...seem to myself 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 ;" but much more truly may the Christian say this of Christ. Oldest and...

...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...