...; 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...ordinary ; while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." When speaking of that modesty which becomes the Christian, and especially...

...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." All our knowledge, if knowledge it may be called, is confined to the surface...

...but as 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.' " " Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment...

...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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." And is it reasonable to believe, that after a glimpse of the boundless treasures...

...have been only like a boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself, in finding now and then a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."f * Nicolai Copernici Vita. Opera Petri Gassendi, Tom. vp 451. t Brewster's...

...world; but to myself I seem only 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."* A few shells have been picked up since his time, but the great ocean of truth...

...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...

...the G world, but, as to myself, I seem 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 similar idea occurs in the Paradise Regained :— Who reads Incessantly,...

...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." Upon the second objection we at once affirm, that the greatest philosophers...

...have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." 4. The subjects of astronomy to which we have directed the attention of the...