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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... "
Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and ... - Página 382
editado por - 1876
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volumen2

1820 - 544 páginas
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' — Rnnuay. Ti not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen90

1822 - 850 páginas
...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...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, wfaiht the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." This assertion has...
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Edinburgh Monthly Review, Volumen3

1820 - 760 páginas
...first is quite consistent with the humility, and the second with the greatness of his mind. " Sir Issue Newton, a little before he died, said, < I don't know...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...
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The Literary chronicle and weekly review, Volumen2,Temas33-83

1820 - 856 páginas
...lamp for him to write tragedy by.' — The tame. ' Sir Isaac tVeiuton.-— Sir Isaac NeWibn, a littte before he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then miding asmoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,...
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Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men

Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 páginas
...Organum, has laid down the whole method that Descartes afterwards followed. — Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, "...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...
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Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men

Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 páginas
...Organum, has laid down the whole method that Descartes afterwards followed. — Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, "...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...
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Observations, Anecdotes, and Characters, of Books and Men

Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 páginas
...Organum, has laid down the whole method that Descartes afterwards followed.—Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."— Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volumen4

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 páginas
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." MSS. Conduitt. \ye The following inscription has been placed by Mr. Tumor...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

1879 - 1042 páginas
...utterance of his closing days is well known : ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' Is not the infinite greatness of the soul expressed in such a sentiment as...
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The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, Volumen90

1822 - 852 páginas
...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...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." This assertion has been construed, by Newton's friends, into a diffidence...
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