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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... "
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton - Página 300
por David Brewster - 1832 - 323 páginas
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1840 - 512 páginas
...both he and they were regarded by mankind. 'I know not,' he remarked, a short time before his death,' what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst vot.xvi.-2b the...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volumen27

1840 - 594 páginas
...Newton," says Spence, " a little before he died, said, ' I don't know what I may seem to the world, but as 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, while the great ocean...
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The philosophy of a future state

Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 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 to myself I Beem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...
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Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the First Epistle of Paul to the ...

Albert Barnes - 1841 - 372 páginas
...in a riddle. to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known. mark : " 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...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volumen38

1841 - 456 páginas
...invidiousness of elevated stations. Newton's Lost Time. I don't know 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...
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The Children's Picture Magazine, Volumen29

1866 - 302 páginas
...that there was very much that he 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...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...
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The Christian Examiner and General Review, Volumen12

Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1832 - 420 páginas
...of the best parts of his shining example. A short time before his death he said, ' I do not know how I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to...boy, playing on the seashore and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay...
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Titian: A Romance of Venice

Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 páginas
...Newton's self-deprecating remark, at the close of that career which did so much for science, was — "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...
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The Monthly Miscellany, Volumen1 -Volumen2,Tema 2

Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 páginas
...reasonable does that language now appear, at which we were once amazed. " I do not know," said Newton, " what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...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...
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The Monthly Review

1843 - 574 páginas
...Isaac Newton ; yet how low was his own estimate of his great acquirements. " I do not know," he said, what I may appear to the world, but, to myself, I...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean...
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