 | University of Glasgow, John Barras Hay - 1839 - 332 pages
...truth" lies expanded before you. "I do not know," said he, at the close of his illustrious career, "what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...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 of truth... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 370 pages
...countrymen had not been more jealous of his honor than he was himself. He said, a little before his death, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1840 - 392 pages
...hear La Place saying, " What we know, is little ; what we are ignorant of is immense ; " and Newton, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then rinding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth lay still... | |
 | 1840 - 512 pages
...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...seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst vot.xvi.-2b the ureat ocean of trulh lay... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1840 - 440 pages
...applauses of the world ; but declaring, with that admirable modesty, which marked his character, " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but,...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 lay... | |
 | 1840 - 594 pages
...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...sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 298 pages
...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pages
...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...seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1841 - 40 pages
...aged Newton. " I do not know-what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem only to have been 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 of truth lay all undiscovered... | |
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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... 
