 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 Life of Sir Isaac Newton - Página 300por David Brewster - 1832 - 323 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | William Woodley (C.R.N.) - 1834 - 100 páginas
...if ho were just then only in the close of his life emerging from the darkness of inherited error,) "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I saem to have been only like a boy playing upon the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1835 - 358 páginas
...From out her skies—then howl your idle wrath ! While she still silvers o'er your gloomy path. (1) [A short time before his death, he uttered this memorable...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... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1835 - 460 páginas
...which Sir Isaac Newton, a short time before his death, as if with a kindred feeling, thas mentioned : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1835 - 40 páginas
...the applauses of the world ; but declaring, with that angelic modesty which marked his character, " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in finding now and then a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 páginas
...Isaac Newton, a little while before he died, — ' I know not 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 páginas
...mighty realm of nature. A litt!' before his death, Dr Pemberton tells us, he observed : " I do not Luov what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have bet и only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in no» and then finding a smoother... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836 - 360 páginas
...From out her skies — then howl your idle wrath ! While she still silvers o'er your gloomy path. (1) [A short time before his death, he uttered this memorable...world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like aboy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 256 páginas
...the whole mighty realm of nature. A little before his death, Dr Pemberton tells us, he observed : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...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... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 306 páginas
...which can engage the attention of the human mind, — and yet he declared a little before his death, "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 páginas
...the applauses of the world ; but declaring, with that angelic modesty which marked his character, ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in finding now and then a pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth... | |
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