 | Eau Claire Manor - 1884 - 492 Seiten
...Philosophers," when eighty-four years of age, remarked: " 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 prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk - 1885 - 236 Seiten
...theoretické a praktické. Index jmen str. 189. UYO D. 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-she ire, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | California. Legislature - 1885 - 1039 Seiten
...Philosophers," when eighty-four years of age, remarked : " 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 prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | William Burgess - 1887 - 320 Seiten
...mighty discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton when he said, "/ 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... | |
 | 1890 - 798 Seiten
...6. Paper — The telephone and the phonograph. 7. Experiments in sound. NEWTON DAY — AI'UII, 17. I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, . . . whilst the great ocean of truth lav all undiscovered before me.— AVzc/on. The exercise most... | |
 | 1892 - 590 Seiten
...unfettered excursions into the realms of infinity, he said. " I know not what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing with pebbles on the sea-shore, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." 2. Every... | |
 | Friends' Religious And Moral Almanac - 1893 - 260 Seiten
...towards the close of a long and useful life, devoted to scientific pursuits and discoveries : "I do not know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1898 - 288 Seiten
...had preserved is the record of Newton's saying, " 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... | |
 | William Bramwell Powell, Louise Connolly - 1899 - 330 Seiten
...feel another's woe, To hide the faults I see. 7. The child appears to have accomplished his task. 8. I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore. 9. I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 654 Seiten
...[Compare Childe Harold, Canto II. stanza vii. line 1, Poetical Worhs, 1899, ii. 103, note a.] 3. ["Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, 'I don't...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then find1ng a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
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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... 
