 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 頁
...recognized 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...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... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 584 頁
...recognised 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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." 1 The following... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 頁
...said the sage, " what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like а boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." See also Nichols's... | |
 | 1856 - 602 頁
...talent, and dying peacefully at the age of eighty-five with that remarkable utterance of his death-bed, " 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." His body lay... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1840 - 376 頁
...hear La Place saying, " What we know, is little ; what we are ignorant of is immense ; " and Newton, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me." I hear Bacon declaring that " Vainglorious men... | |
 | 1847 - 900 頁
...student of science in the memorable words uttered by him towards the close of his life : " I know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." A further stimulus... | |
 | 1858 - 782 頁
...he and they were regarded by mankind. " I know not," he remarked, a short time before his death, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." How touching... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 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 usual, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." These are the words... | |
 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 頁
...seem to the world, 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 shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."t — R. * Additions... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 144 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 usual, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." These are the words... | |
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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... 
