 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 191820Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 pages
...fresh air, or inhale any sort of sustenance. NEWTON'S PHILOSOPHY. — Sir Isaac Newton, a little hefore he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have heen only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...he died; and which shows his modest opinion of himself and his discoveries in Natural Philosophy. " I dont 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 myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier •hell than... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...the benefits he had conferred upon science, he replied, " Alas ! I know not what I may have appeared to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing with pebbles on the sea shore, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 pages
...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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | William Malkin - Christianity - 1825 - 504 pages
...the Bible, with piety and humility he exclaimed, " 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... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - American poetry - 1826 - 660 pages
...miracle : Newton, like Barrow, had no feding or respect for poetry. CHATHAM. His words are these : " 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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...more than one editor, the following 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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, than... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1832 - 442 pages
...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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or ' a prettier shell than... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1826 - 414 pages
...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 on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | 1828 - 400 pages
...181 neral laugh ensued, aa.l waked him out of his dream. SIR ISAAC NEWTOV. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said — •'. I don't know what I...may seem to the world. but as to myself, I seem to hitfe • been only like a boy playing on tho sea shore, and diverting myself in rtow and -tFi'en finding... | |
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