 | William Steven - 1849 - 638 頁
...his death he remarked, " I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting...shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lies undiscovered before me ;" thus beautifully and powerfully contrasting the littleness of human... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 頁
...may seem to the world, but aa to myself, I Mem to have been only like a boy playing on the aea-ahora, th bras, But all with silver wrought full cieñe and wcl, Hir girdelee shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of trutb lay all undiscovered before mo.' — Spence'r... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 316 頁
...not know what I may appear to• the world ; but to myself I seem 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 undiscovered before me." What a lesson to... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 318 頁
...not know what 1 may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem 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 undiscovered before me/' What a lesson to... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 311 頁
...not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem 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 undiscovered before me." What a lesson to... | |
 | 1837 - 220 頁
...Isaac Newton, before his death expressed a similar sentiment — ' I do not know what I may appear tu the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth ies still undiscovered before me.' A SLEEPY HAT. —... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1851 - 494 頁
...Newton, after all the discoveries by which he enlightened and astonished the world, " I seem to myself to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me ;" but much more... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 762 頁
...what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on tie does she at their honne Г She U, in all probability, your wife's cousin. Nine times ou shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me.' Chattrfidd. Surely... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 504 頁
...the whole mighty realm of nature. A little before his death, Dr Pemberton tells us, he observed : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary. whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." " If I have done... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 頁
...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 all lay undiscovered before me." This modest estimation... | |
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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 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... 
