 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 Seiten
...only to allow him (which they already do) to be the greatest geometrician that ever was. — R. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said : " I...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... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 158 Seiten
...which were uttered by the dying philosopher: — " 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... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1858 - 144 Seiten
...which were uttered by the dying philosopher: — " 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... | |
 | Hannah Ransome Geldart - 1863 - 376 Seiten
...explored. A short time before his death he said, " I do not know what I may appear to the world; hut to myself I seem to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst... | |
 | Arthur Bailey Thompson - 1865 - 748 Seiten
...from thence." SIB ISAAC NEWTON. Shortly before his death, this eminent philosopher said : "I do not know wh'at I may seem to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been very like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | 1865 - 976 Seiten
...before his death this Princo of Philosophers said, " I do not know how I may appear to tho world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on tho sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1867 - 592 Seiten
...method of conciliating matters, of redressing grievances, and of reconciling brethren ! NEWTON. — Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said : —...; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like s boy playing on the sea-shore, and drrerting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a... | |
 | Margaret Maria Gordon - 1870 - 502 Seiten
...death, he uttered this memorable sentiment : — ' 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... | |
 | 1879 - 684 Seiten
...the following anecdote relating to Sir Isaac Newton, from Spence : " I don't know," said the sage, " what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to be only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding only now and then a smoother... | |
 | 1882 - 594 Seiten
...think of what we may become by following its directions, we may each truly say with Sir Isaac Newton, " I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then by finding a smoother pebble or prettier shkll 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... 
