 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1903 - 652 Seiten
...The Rehearsal (Letters, 1901, v. 80).] 3. ["Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, '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 find1ng a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - 1903 - 704 Seiten
...forms a sublime comment on the foregoing note. " I don't know," said that greatest and humblest of men, "what I may seem to the world; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a 1юу playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or... | |
 | William M. Campbell - 1903 - 230 Seiten
...relation of his discoveries to the realm of the undiscovered "I do not know what I may appear ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on 14 the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell... | |
 | Wilhelm Ahrens - 1904 - 678 Seiten
...BERTRAND. „L'Académie des sciences et les académiciens de 1666 à 1793" (Paris 1869), p. 240. 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... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1905 - 252 Seiten
...better he saw how much there was still to be learned. When he was a very old man he one day said :• " I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore. I have amused myself by now and then finding a smooth pebble or a pretty shell, but the great ocean... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 Seiten
...known for one hundred years after. Facts seek their inventions, happy marriage of fact to fact. 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 now and then finding a smoother pebble or a 1830] RELIGION SUBLIMED... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 588 Seiten
...their inventions, happy marriage of fact to fact. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said : I " I don't know what I may seem to the world, but \as...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,... | |
 | Clement Vavasor Durell - 1910 - 384 Seiten
...European fame of his achievements, is illustrated by the following extracts from his correspondence : " 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... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 436 Seiten
...hours without dressing himself, utterly absorbed in thought. — PARTON, JAMES. Sir Isaac Newton. 1023. I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only as a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1918 - 774 Seiten
...Worhs, 1899, ii. 1o3, note 2.] 3. ["Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, 'I don't know whatl may seem to the world ; but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a I my playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then find1ng a smoother pebble or a... | |
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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... 
