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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... "
The Literary chronicle and weekly review - Page 19
1820
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Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham, Volume 7

Englishmen - 1836 - 256 pages
...his death, Dr Pemberton tells us, he observed : " 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...
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The Philosophy of a Future State

Thomas Dick - Future life - 1836 - 306 pages
...— and yet he declared a little before his death, "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 pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1

Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 652 pages
...that angelic modesty which marked his character, ' 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 finding now and then a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary,...
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Materials for thinking, extracted from the works of ancient and modern ...

1837 - 352 pages
...Wisdom. — There is, among the records of "Newton, a sentence in the spirit of Shakspeare, : — " I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but, as...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettyer shell, than...
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Description of the banquet given in honour of ... sir Robert Peel ... on his ...

James Cleland - 1837 - 172 pages
...not, said he, at the close of his illustrious career, " I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, finding sometimes a brighter pebble or a smoother shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth...
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The Winter Evening Book

William Chambers - Literature - 1837 - 352 pages
...his death he uttered this memorable sentiment: ' 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,...
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The Sacred History of the World: Attempted to be Philosophically ..., Volume 2

Sharon Turner - Creation - 1838 - 448 pages
...as if with a kindred feeling, thus mentioned : " 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,...
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Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy: Who was Murdered in Defence of the ...

Joseph Cammet Lovejoy, Owen Lovejoy - History - 1838 - 398 pages
...of all that he had achieved : — ' I do not know,' said he, ' 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,...
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Inaugural Addresses by Lords Rectors of the University of Glasgow: To which ...

University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 414 pages
...do not know," said he, at the close of his illustrious career, "what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, finding sometimes a brighter pebble or a smoother shell than ordinary, while the great ocean...
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Quarterly register and journal of the American education society ..., Volume 11

American education society - 1839 - 496 pages
...made toward the close of his life. "I do not know," said he, "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...
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