 | Jack (fict.name.) - 1843 - 480 pages
...I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea shore, 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." I shall, with the best wishes for your welfare... | |
 | Books - 1843 - 574 pages
...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, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Upon the second... | |
 | Author - 1850 - 124 pages
...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 lay all undiscovered before me." The Period . When a Sentence is complete and... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the, sea-shore, chanted by the bard or minstrel of his clan : — At first, the chieftain great ocean of Truth lay all uudis- ' covered before me.' Chesterfield. Surely Nature, who had given... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...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, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me." — Dr. Brewster's... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...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 pret tier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pages
...seem to the world ; but as 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 lay all undiscovered before me." Chesterfield. Surely Nature, who had given him... | |
 | 1847 - 614 pages
...knowledge, — he said, " 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...pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Such facts as the following illustrate the above... | |
 | 384 pages
...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 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.' We need not however go so far as to allow that... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Bible - 1847 - 334 pages
...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, while the r/reat ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.' Cicero, the great... | |
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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... 
