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 biblical museum - Página 80por James Comper Gray - 1872Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...Stanza 10 10. A fool must now and then be right by chance. William Cowper 1731-1800 Conversation 11. 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 in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 páginas
...vctusta Simoniorum Familia. Siwlptori, Pictori et Architccto Fama omnibus notissimo." + Agassiz. } " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only hke a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
| Michael Mitchell - 2006 - 354 páginas
...leaves us with a haunting remark by which Newton is represented in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations: 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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a... | |
| Christine Langtree - 2006 - 104 páginas
...on tJ Life is about how you feel not how you look on the Sir Isaac Newton said, 'I do not know how I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a DOy playing on the sea shore and diverting myself every now and then in finding a smoother pebble... | |
| Susan Bassnett, Peter Bush - 2006 - 248 páginas
...lurking in each new one; when translating, I am constantly reminded of Newton's simile of himself: '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... | |
| Northrop Frye - 2000 - 476 páginas
...toward the end of his life, which is commemorated on one of these chapel windows: "I do not know how I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been a child playing with stones on a beach, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
| 124 páginas
...round the deity. Nothingness has no directions. - K. Satchidanandan, (How to go to the Tao Temple) I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered... | |
| Theo Koupelis, Karl F. Kuhn - 2007 - 675 páginas
...(unit, unify, unique, and so on). Our (a) — Moon's orbit Earth's orbit Orbit of center of mass / do not know what I may appear to the world; but to...the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then ftnding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all... | |
| Henry David Thoreau - 2007 - 525 páginas
...(1642-1727), who said, as recorded in Sir David Brewster's (17811868) The Life of Sir Isaac Newton: "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean... | |
| Thomas Armstrong - 2007 - 382 páginas
...activities are indistinguishable from the playful acts of young children. Isaac Newton once wrote: "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore and diverting himself and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary... | |
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