 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 Yale Literary Magazine - Side 2231839Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 sider
...reported to have said, 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...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'... | |
 | 1825 - 424 sider
...Newton, just before his death, "but to myself I seem io have been only a boy, playing 0n the seashorft, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...ordinary, while the great ocean of truth, lay all undiscovered j)efore me," Common &msc win lScmus, THOMA.S _MOORE, ESQ. COMMON;SENSE.AND L; While I... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 650 sider
...respect for poetiy. CHATHAM. His words are these : " I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing...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."... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 sider
...is told of Sir Isaac Newton : " I don't know," said the sage, " what I may seem to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...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."... | |
 | 1832 - 442 sider
...do not know," he finely said, a short time before his death, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing...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."... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1826 - 414 sider
...was himself. He said, 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...seashore, 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... | |
 | William Goodhugh - 1827 - 402 sider
...Newton said, a little before be died, " I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Though so deep in algebra and fluxions, he could out rea'dily make up a common... | |
 | 1827 - 460 sider
...myself I seem like a little boy playing by the seashore, diverting himself now and then by picking up a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary while the great ocean of undiscovered truth lies beyond. " When in Cambridge 1 attended a voluntary course of lectures given... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 412 sider
...was himself. He said, 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...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... | |
 | 596 sider
...philosopher, a little before his death, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to be 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."... | |
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