 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
 | Tom Taylor - 1874 - 554 páginas
...a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble and a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." He read much. The book which was most commonly lying before him, and which... | |
 | England. - Assembly of Divines. - Shorter Catechism, Mary Thomson Symington - 1878 - 302 páginas
...We might study any one of them all our lives long, and be ever finding something new regarding it. The great Sir Isaac Newton said, a short time before...reading, and is mentioned in the Catechism. What is it, Charlie ? ' 'All very good. " God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good."... | |
 | 1879 - 684 páginas
...only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding only now and then a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all -^discovered before me." To return to the question which heads this article ; probably the true answer... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1879 - 304 páginas
...like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." When Sir Isaac was a great man, living in London in a style necessary to his... | |
 | David Thomas - 1880 - 450 páginas
...seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." " What a lesson," remarks Sir David Brewster, in his .life of the great Englishman,... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - 1877 - 1022 páginas
...; 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, Collection! relative to the Town of Granthaa}. But while he thus contrasted... | |
 | J L. Nye - 1882 - 140 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 all undiscovered before me." PARTIAL KNOWLEDGE. — A traveller, as he passed through a large and thick... | |
 | 1899 - 1098 páginas
...been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and devoting myself now and then to finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the...ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The successful treatment of rheumatism, as we understand it to-day, was elaborated in the school of bedside... | |
 | John McClintock, James Strong - 1883 - 1116 páginas
...only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then rinding ! a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me"7 (Turner, Culltcfioits rcltiticc to tltf Toii-n (if (ir(in(h<iin). Hut while... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1884 - 410 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 all undiscovered before me." — Brewster's Life of Newton, pp. 300, 301. Ed. New York, 1832. 12. For now... | |
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