 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
 | William Bourn Oliver Peabody, Oliver William Bourn Peabody - Sermons, American - 1849 - 416 pages
...A short time before his death, Newton said, — "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,... | |
 | William Bourn Oliver Peabody - 1849 - 416 pages
...A short time before his death, Newton said, — "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,... | |
 | George Frederick Pardon - Animals - 1840 - 274 pages
...capacity. Just before his death, he said, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself 1 seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble, or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Cosmology - 1850 - 684 pages
...yet he declared, a little before his death, " I do not know •*nat I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on th» sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...like Barrow, aid no feeling or respect for poetry. Chatham. His words are these: — 'I don't knov en ; Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all tie sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | Mike George - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2004 - 388 pages
...Think of the divine as a hue that we have never perceived directly - only intuited. g02 On the seashore To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | Sir Michael Sadler, Jack Sislian - Education - 2004 - 352 pages
...the finest temper of eighteenth century thought. "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,... | |
 | Mark Pendergrast - Science - 2009 - 448 pages
...what I may appear to the world," Newton told a visitor shortly before his death at eighty-four, "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 prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | B. Elwin Sherman - Depression, Mental - 2004 - 164 pages
...you down to nursing gridlock. Here, we switch hats: There, but for the grace of Me, goes God. "BUT TO MYSELF, I SEEM TO HAVE BEEN ONLY LIKE A BOY PLAYING ON THE SEASHORE ... WHILST THE GREAT OCEAN OF TRUTH LAY ALL UNDISCOVERED BEFORE ME." — SUPPOSED LAST WORDS... | |
 | Gregory McNamee - Grand Canyon (Ariz.) - 2004 - 132 pages
...the face of Grand Canyon's vastness can appreciate: / 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 now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
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