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 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... The biblical museum - Página 80por James Comper Gray - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 páginas
...applauses of the world ; but declaring, with that admirable modesty, which marked his character, " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but,...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... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 páginas
...which can engage the attention of the human mind, — and yet he declared a little before his death, "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I Beem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1841 - 372 páginas
...in a riddle. to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known. mark : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...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... | |
| Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1832 - 420 páginas
...of the best parts of his shining example. A short time before his death he said, ' I do not know how I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to...boy, playing on the seashore and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay... | |
| Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 páginas
...acquirements, he recognised his own littleness in thus speaking just before his death : ' I know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or prettier shell than ordinary : whilst the great ocean... | |
| Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 páginas
...truth" lies expanded before you. " I do not know," said he, at the close of his illustrious career, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, finding sometimes a brighter pebble or a smoother shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth... | |
| 1845 - 334 páginas
...his own littleness ; and a short time before his death he uttered this memorable sentiment : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...myself In now and then finding a smoother pebble or a pret tier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 páginas
...and the noble discoveries he had made, when he approached the hour of his dissolution, declared, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...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... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 620 páginas
...for poetry. Cha/ham. Hi» words are these : — " I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing mi the seashore, and diverting myself in now und then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier «hell... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 334 páginas
...just entered the outer vestibule of knowledge. Such were the feelings of Newton, when he exclaimed, " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a muoothcr pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the ^reat ocean of truth lay undiscovered... | |
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