 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 頁
...is told of Sir Isaac Newton : " I don't know," said the sage, " what I may seem to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." See also Nichols's... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 650 頁
...respect for poetiy. CHATHAM. His words are these : " 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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." CHESTERFIELD.... | |
 | 598 頁
...philosopher, a little before his death, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to be only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Anecdote of Dr.... | |
 | 1829
...Sir Isaac Newton, 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...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." GENERAL DUMESNIL.... | |
 | John Whitecross - 1830 - 196 頁
...but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sen-shore, and diverting myself; now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great oceatvof truth lay all undiscovered before me. The late Dr. Beattie of Aberdeen, wishing to 15 impress... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833
...o'er your gloomy path. (1) [A short time before his death, he uttered this memorable sentiment : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'* — What a lesson... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1833 - 364 頁
...o'er your gloomy path. (1) [A short time before hit death, he uttered this memorable sentiment : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — What a lesson... | |
 | 1833 - 816 頁
...recognized his own littleness ; and a short time before his death he uttered this memorable sentiment : ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' What a lesson... | |
 | 1840
...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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst Vol. XVI.— 2 D the great ocean of trulh lay all undiscovered before me.'... | |
 | 1834 - 222 頁
...recognised his own littleness; and a short time before his death he uttered this memorable sentiment: ' I do not know what I may appear to the world; but...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' "In the religious... | |
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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... 
