 | 1809
...' Sir Isaac 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 pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | 1820
...most proper lamp for him to write tragedy by. — The same. 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 hare been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a... | |
 | 1822
...Conduit, that, a little before his death, he 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 sea-shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than... | |
 | 1818
...his death, " I do not know what 1 mav appear to the rest of the world, but to myself 1 serin to liave been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a- prettier thell than ordinary, while the great < Icean... | |
 | 1820
...humility, and the second with the greatness of his mind. " Sir Issue Newton, a little before he died, said, < I don't know what I may seem to the world...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sen. shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a. smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 302 pagina’s
...Descartes afterwards followed. — Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to the world;...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... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 302 pagina’s
...Descartes afterwards followed. — Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to the world;...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... | |
 | 1820
...most proper lamp for him to write tragedy by. — The same. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but us to myself, I seem to have been ouly like a boy plaving on tiic sea-shore, and diverting myself in... | |
 | John Bowyer Nichols - 1822
...Sir Isaac 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... | |
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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... 
