 | 596 pages
...be 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 lay all undiscovered before me." Anecdote of Dr. Desaguliers. — Being invited to an illustrious company,... | |
 | 1828 - 586 pages
...himself like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him. How poor, then, arc the acquirements, and how pitiable the pride of tho generality... | |
 | 1829 - 476 pages
...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 lay all undiscovered before me." GENERAL DUMESNIL. General Dumesnil, who lost a leg in the campaign of Russia,... | |
 | 1829 - 460 pages
...only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great Ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.' New Discoveries. — Almost every scientific journal announces the discovery... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." You have often seen a man raising a stone by means of a strong bar of iron.... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...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, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — to those... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 358 pages
...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 lay all undiscovered before me.'* — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 pages
...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 lay all undiscovered before me." — What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers; to those,... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and theft finding a smoother pebble of a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all tmdiscovered before me.' What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — tb those... | |
 | Thomas Allen - 1834 - 430 pages
...shore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell thanordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The house in which Sir Isaac lived in St. Martin's St., Leicester Square, is still standing : it is on... | |
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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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth... 
