...then shall I know even as also I am known. mark : " 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 by now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than...

...did not know; and shortly before 'his death he said, " I know not how 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...

...one day be able to say, with the same genuine humility of soul, as the great Sir Isaac Newton — " I don't know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea shore, diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...

...that career which did so much for science, was — "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...

...estimate of his great acquirements. " I do not know," he said, 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...

...at which we were once amazed. " I do not know," said Newton, " 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,...

...not know," said he, at the close of his illustrious career, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, finding sometimes a brighter pebble or a smoother shell than ordinary, while the great ocean...

...littleness in thus speaking just before his death : ' I know not 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 by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or prettier shell than ordinary...

...miracle : Newton, like Barrow, had no feeling or respect for poetry. Chatham. His words are these : — ' we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than...

...Newton gave the following estimate of himself: — " 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...