 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 776 páginas
...acquirements, he recognised his own littleness in thus speaking just before his death : ' I know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or prettier shell than ordinary : whilst the great ocean... | |
 | Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 páginas
...truth" lies expanded before you. " I do not know," said he, at the close of his illustrious career, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...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... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 páginas
...and the noble discoveries he had made, when he approached the hour of his dissolution, declared, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 334 páginas
...just entered the outer vestibule of knowledge. Such were the feelings of Newton, when he exclaimed, " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a muoothcr pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the ^reat ocean of truth lay undiscovered... | |
 | 1847 - 784 páginas
...Human Understanding," book ii. section 10 ; and read Newton's language in familiar conversation : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst "the great ocean of... | |
 | 1847 - 614 páginas
...Newton, — a short time before his death, was reflecting upon the infinity of knowledge, — he said, " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but,...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... | |
 | Robert Falkner Hessey - 1848 - 74 páginas
...immensi mirada recondita ponti : " " I know not," remarked Newton a short time before his death, " what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." Turner's Collections... | |
 | 1848 - 384 páginas
...'or, in a riddle. mark : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself 1 веет to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean... | |
 | 1851 - 824 páginas
...appear to the world," said Sir Isaac Newton, towards the close of life, " hut to myself I seem to hare been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in DOW and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 612 páginas
...the applauses of the world ; but declaring, with that angelic modesty which marked his character, ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding now and then a pebble, or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay... | |
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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... 
