 | 1852 - 318 Seiten
...do but touch the confines of truth. " I don't know," he said, " 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 than ordinary, while the... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1853 - 632 Seiten
...miracle : Newton, like Barrow, had no feeling or respect for poetry. Chatham. His words arc these : — " I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, composition is mainly this : a just admission of I seem to have been only like a boy playing on tópica... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 Seiten
...little before his death he affectingly remarked, " I know not 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... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 Seiten
...not know," said he, at the close of his illustrious career, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 Seiten
...more than one editor, the following is told of Sir Isaac Newton : — "1 don't know," said the sage, " what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like а boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 Seiten
...before his death he uttered this memorable sentence: ' 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 now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | 1855 - 554 Seiten
...before his death be uttered this memorable sentence: ' 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 now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | 1856 - 754 Seiten
...do but touch the confines of truth. " I don't know," he said, " 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 than ordinary, while the... | |
 | 1856 - 902 Seiten
...was himself. He said a little before his death, ' 1 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 eea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or я prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 Seiten
...mind,—and yet he declared, a little before his death, " I do not know what I rimy appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on thf sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
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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, whilst the great ocean of truth... 
