 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 ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth...  The Illustrated London almanack - Pagina 441847Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Robert Peel - 1843 - 504 pagina’s
...truth" lies expanded before you. " I do not know," said he, at the close of his illustrious career, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, finding sometimes a brighter pebble or a smoother shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1844 - 452 pagina’s
...Newton, a short time before his death, as if with a kindred feeling, thus mentioned : "I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth... | |
 | Author - 1850 - 124 pagina’s
...preceded by a Colon ; as, Sir Isaac Newton gave the following estimate of himself: — " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pagina’s
...respect for poetry. Chatham. His words are these: — 'I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar eau posses now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...for poetry. Chatham. His words are these : — ' I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as shades, for speech assuming Held commune with him, as if he and it Were now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of... | |
 | Sango Mbella - 2005 - 304 pagina’s
...occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. -Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of... | |
 | 2004 - 516 pagina’s
...refuse to accept the lies and rationalizations of the established order. — Dick Gregory I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of... | |
 | Gale E. Christianson - 2005 - 160 pagina’s
...the morning of March 20, at age eighty-four. Not long before his passing he remarked, "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth... | |
 | David Warren Cohen, James M. Henle - 2005 - 1014 pagina’s
...Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz / do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting m\self in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great... | |
 | H.E. Gruber, Katja Bödeker - 2005 - 564 pagina’s
...experience of the universe is shown in Newton's own remark, and its likeness to Blake's lines: 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... | |
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