 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 322 pages
...afterwards followed.—Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to the world; but as to...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."— Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 324 pages
...afterwards followed.—Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to the world; but as to...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."— Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great... | |
 | Joseph Spence - Authors, English - 1820 - 558 pages
...geometrician that ever was.—R. * Additions from MS. B. 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 finding a smoother pebble or a... | |
 | 596 pages
...philosopher, a little before his death, " what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to be only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Anecdote of Dr. Desaguliers.—Being invited to an illustrious company, one... | |
 | Bartholomew Prescot - Astronomy - 1822 - 292 pages
...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...or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ecean of truth lay undiscovered before me." Never, I believe, did the mind of Newton form a more accurate... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - Instinct - 1824 - 584 pages
...died; and which shows his modest opinion of himself and his discoveries in Natural Philosophy. " I dont know what I may seem to the world, but, as to...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier •hell than ordinary, whiLit the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 pages
...shows his modest opinion of himself and his discoveries in Natural Philosophy. " I dont know what 1 may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sin-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 pages
...the benefits he had conferred upon science, he replied, " Alas ! I know not what I may have appeared to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing with pebbles on the sea shore, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 pages
...reported to have said, a little before his death, ' I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'— (See Turner's Collections from Town and Vicinity ofGrantham, 1806.) Such... | |
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words are these:—'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... 
