 | 1848 - 916 sider
...contained, he was but like a youth playing on the sea-shore, finding now a smoother pechle, and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before him." The Banner of the Truth, or Scottish Calvinietic Magazine. No. I. This small... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 322 sider
...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 the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 316 sider
...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 the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 318 sider
...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 the vanity and presumption of philosophers —to those especially... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 sider
...been only like a boy playing on the aea-ahora, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother , Hir girdelee trutb lay all undiscovered before mo.' — Spence'r AnccdoU*, p. A4. Who read« Incessantly, and to... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 sider
...havo been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." The same sentiment might have been illustrated from the lives of Bacon, Locke,... | |
 | Walter Macon Lowrie - 1851 - 494 sider
...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 ;" but much more truly may the Christian say this of Christ. Oldest and most... | |
 | 1851 - 808 sider
...to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him.' There is a great distinction between wisdom and knowledge which is finely... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 sider
...been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." His tranquil character is shown in the fact, that some quibbling philosophers... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 sider
...have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myselt 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.' All honour and success to those who are constructing rafts and barks for the... | |
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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... 
