| Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 Seiten
...miracle : Newton, like Barrow, had no feeling or respect for poetry. Chatham. His words are these : — " 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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
| Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 620 Seiten
...miracle: Newton.like Barrow, had no feeling or respect for poetry. Cha/ham. Hi» words are these : — " I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as...myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing mi the seashore, and diverting myself in now und then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier «hell... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1799 - 392 Seiten
...approached the hour of his dissolution, declared, " 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 seashore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...in the world, and * Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, ' I dont know what 1 may soein est her fligh sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell thiiu... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1847 - 334 Seiten
...were the feelings of Newton, when he exclaimed, " 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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than... | |
| 1847 - 784 Seiten
...read Newton's language in familiar conversation : " 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 prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 Seiten
...there is such a thing in the world, ml * Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, »aid. ' I dlffl't easurЇ «™> to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, u> diverting myself In now and then finding... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1847 - 362 Seiten
...uttered thu memorable senti. rncnt : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to mysel' 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 Falkner Hessey - 1848 - 74 Seiten
..." I know not," remarked Newton a short time before his death, " 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 shell than ordinary, whilst the... | |
| Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 Seiten
...to have uttered a short time previous to his death. " 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... | |
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