 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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.  The Dayspring - Página 871872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - 1864 - 370 páginas
...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and devoting myself now and then to finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." I know this sentiment has been so often repeated as to seem trite, but, coming... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1865 - 560 páginas
...that we have been but like children, playing on the seashore, and picking up here and there a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered before us. on for so many thousand years, should have now suddenly ceased ; and... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1866 - 468 páginas
...world; but to 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...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me."* If these are the confessions of the greatest intellect that ever lived—if... | |
 | Edward M. Pierce - 1867 - 1030 páginas
...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...ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The Latin epitaph on his monument may be thus translated : " Here lies Isaac Newton, knight, who, by a... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 páginas
...world, hut to 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...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Brewster's Life of Newton, pp. 300, 301, Harper's ed., 1832. and we remember,... | |
 | 1868 - 330 páginas
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." (Brewster's -Life of Newton.) The records of their thirty-seven annual assemblies... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1870 - 382 páginas
...have been only like a child playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." LESSON XCIX. CHABACTER OF REPETITION. lA7iali/sis.— I. Why repetition is... | |
 | James Comper Gray - 1872 - 372 páginas
...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...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — All not seen at once. — A traveller, as he passed through a large and... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 páginas
...have been only like a child playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." LESSON XCIX. CHARACTER OF REPETITION. [Analysis.— 1. Why repetition is generally... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 páginas
...myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. — Sir ISAAC NEWTON. 6. Higher, higher still we climb Up ihe mount of glory,... | |
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