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
| William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 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 all undiscovered before me." Precisely the same simile may be found in Justus Lipsius (see ¿Votes and... | |
| Friends' Religious And Moral Almanac - 1893 - 260 páginas
...world, but as to myself, I seem to have been 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." —»+.»- » True worship requires a considerable degree of abstraction om... | |
| Henry Calderwood - 1893 - 380 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 all undiscovered before me.' 2 This is the utterance of a great thinker, of an instructor of the whole... | |
| George Augustus Sala - 1894 - 404 páginas
...congratulated on the imperishable service which he had rendered to science, modestly likened himself to a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting himself...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him. I have not the slightest pretensions to scientific knowledge of any kind,... | |
| John McClintock - 1894 - 1014 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 all undiscovered before me" (Turner, Cvlltctiont relative to the Town of Grtmlhtm). But while he thus contrasted... | |
| 1894 - 590 páginas
...myself I appear only as a boy playing upon the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered around me. " The knowledge possessed by men like Plato, Newton, and Sir William... | |
| Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1897 - 424 páginas
...world; but to myself 1 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." Other examples are: — " A fellow that makes no figure in company, and has... | |
| Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1898 - 288 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 all undiscovered before me." A very curious relic of Sir Isaac survives in the garden at Cranbury Park,... | |
| 1898 - 404 páginas
...have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smooth pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.—Sir Isaac Newton. BY ELIZABETH J. WAEEEN. Lock fast the lower doors, Ascend... | |
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