 | 1847 - 900 pages
...words uttered by him towards the close of his life : " I know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." A further stimulus to the constant increase of our stores of knowledge lies... | |
 | Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo - 1840 - 376 pages
...what we are ignorant of is immense ; " and Newton, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me." I hear Bacon... | |
 | 1858 - 782 pages
...mankind. " I know not," he remarked, 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." How touching is this sense of humility, and contrast of the littleness of... | |
 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 pages
...not only to allow him (which they already do) to be the greatest geometrician that ever was. — R. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said :...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... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1858 - 500 pages
...ocean of truth is still unexplored. " I do not know," said he, " what I may appear to the woild; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing•...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." * Whatever may... | |
 | Mary Ward - 1859 - 310 pages
...the subject which has been taken by Pingre\ Lalande, and various astronomers of the 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 unexplored before me." present day. In this case the comet should have returned in 1848, if its motion... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1860 - 284 pages
...before his death, uttered this memorable sentiment : " 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."* This reflection of Newton, like that of Charles Bell, belongs, it is true,... | |
 | George Seaton Bowes - 1860 - 478 pages
...Jesus." Sir ISAAC NEWTON, a little before 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...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lies all undiscovered' before me." RICHARD BAXTER.... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...as this memorial of his matchless modesty : " 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." And, yet, the planets, of whose laws, he was the first interpreter, are but... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1861 - 390 pages
...we were once perhaps amazed : " I do not know," said Newton, " 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." What a testimony to the infant ignorance of man ! But we need not soar thus... | |
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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... 
