 | Sharon Turner - 1838 - 448 頁
...which Sir Isaac Newton, a short time before bis death, as if with a kindred feeling, thus mentioned : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me." — Dr. firewater's Life of Sir Isaac Newton,... | |
 | 1839 - 532 頁
...from their view. Well might the prince of philosophers, with characteristic humility, exclaim — " to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth, lay all undiscovered before me." All... | |
 | Frances S. Parker - 1839 - 100 頁
...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 lay all undiscovered before me." — Sir I.... | |
 | 1840 - 512 頁
...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 vot.xvi.-2b the ureat ocean of trulh lay all undiscovered heforc me.' (Turner's... | |
 | 1841 - 456 頁
...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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me. Harmlessness of... | |
 | 1866 - 302 頁
...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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me!" Was not that... | |
 | Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1843 - 856 頁
...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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me !" Agrippa's manners,... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey - 1839 - 448 頁
...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...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 sad testimony... | |
 | Jack (fict.name.) - 1843 - 480 頁
...I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only a boy playing on the sea shore, 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 before me." I shall, with... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1844 - 452 頁
...which Sir Isaac Newton, a short time before his death, as if with a kindred feeling, thus mentioned : "I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me." — Dr. Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac Newton,... | |
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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... 
