 | H. Beale Collins - 1902 - 166 pagina’s
...ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1903 - 888 pagina’s
...miracle : Newton, like Barrow, had no feeling or respect for poetry. Chatham. His words are these : ' oldiers, falling forward on the spikes, rolled down upon the ranks behind. Then the Fr like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 654 pagina’s
...line 1, Poetical Worhs, 1899, ii. 103, note a.] 3. ["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 have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then find1ng a smoother pebble... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 pagina’s
...The Rehearsal (Letters, 1901, v. 80).] 3. ["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 have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then find1ng a smoother pebble... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1903 - 704 pagina’s
...forms a sublime comment on the foregoing note. " I don't know," said that greatest and humblest of men, "what I may seem to the world; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a 1юу playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble,... | |
 | Wilhelm Ahrens - 1904 - 678 pagina’s
...académiciens de 1666 à 1793" (Paris 1869), p. 240. 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 have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | Edward Fuller Bigelow - 1907 - 318 pagina’s
...really profound knowledge. Says Sir Isaac Newton: 35 "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 pagina’s
...their inventions, happy marriage of fact to fact. 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 have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or... | |
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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 on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth... 
