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 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 pagina’s
..." 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...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 - 1820 - 322 pagina’s
..." 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...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 - 1820 - 558 pagina’s
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me *."—R. * This interesting anecdote of our great philosopher's modest opinion... | |
 | 596 pagina’s
...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 myself in...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 - 1822 - 292 pagina’s
...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 - 1824 - 574 pagina’s
...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...or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocam of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." See Spence's Anecdote-, by SW Singer, page 54. 2 r.2... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 pagina’s
..." I dont 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 •hell than ordinary, whiLit the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 pagina’s
...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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'— (See Turner's Collections from Town and Vicinity ofGrantham, 1806.) Such... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825 - 504 pagina’s
...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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." That enlightened and profound reasoner, Mr. Locke, in a letter to a person... | |
 | Richard Gooch - 1825 - 248 pagina’s
...been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." STERNE Was bred at Jesus College, Cambridge, where it is said he studied very... | |
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