 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 pagina’s
...to myself I seem to 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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 pagina’s
...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." " If I have done the public any service in this way," he writes also to... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 pagina’s
...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 all lay undiscovered before me." This modest estimation of his own powers was the natural result of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pagina’s
...only like a boy playing on the веа-fthore. and diverting myself in now and then finding я smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' — Spfntx'e Anecdotett p. Я. Who i ri . К Incessantly, and to his reading... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Life - 1854 - 192 pagina’s
...highest acquirements ! We are like children playing on the sea-shore, and diverting ourselves, now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered before us. But what we know not now, we shall know hereafter. Now we see through... | |
 | 1854 - 652 pagina’s
...have 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." — Dr.T.Diclc. TEMPERANCE. You know the mean provision that John the... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pagina’s
...myself, I seem to have been only like а 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. — TUDD.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 pagina’s
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself 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... 
