 | Mary Ward - 1859 - 322 頁
...is the view of the subject which has been taken by Pingre\ Lalande, and various astronomers of the to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all unexplored before me." present day. In... | |
 | George Seaton Bowes - 1860 - 478 頁
...and preacher : — " It is safest to trust in Jesus." Sir ISAAC NEWTON, a little before death : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered' before me." RICHARD BAXTER. — " Oh ! I thank Him, I thank Him ; the Lord teach... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1860 - 284 頁
...conceit than I." The great Newton, a short time before his death, 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."* This reflection... | |
 | John Timbs - 1860 - 332 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 the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." How touching... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 650 頁
...the marvellous magnificence of Newton's master mind, as this memorial of his matchless modesty : " I do not know, what I may appear, to the world ; but,...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, than ordinary : whilst the great ocean of truth lay, all undiscovered, before me." And, yet,... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1861 - 390 頁
...does that language now appear, at which we were once perhaps 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 testimony... | |
 | James Whitton - 1861 - 462 頁
...humility is with real greatness : — * know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seom to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore,...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." NIN'EVEH, the... | |
 | George Seaton Bowes - 1863 - 518 頁
...and preacher : — "It is safest to trust in Jesus." SIR ISAAC NEWTON, a little before death : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered before me." RICHARD BAXTER.—" Oh ! I thank Him, I thank Him ; the Lord teach... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 832 頁
...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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." " If I have done... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 頁
...famous saying, ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been ouly like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' " — Newton's... | |
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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... 
