 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 էջ
...See the queries subjoined to Newton's Optics. • | Sir Isaac said a little before his death, • • I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." MSS. Conduitt. \ye The following inscription has been placed by Mr. Tumor... | |
 | 1822 - 852 էջ
..." We are informed, by his particular friend Mr Conduit, that, a little before his death, he said, ' I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me." This assertion has been construed, by Newton's friends, into a diffidence... | |
 | 1822 - 494 էջ
...seem to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, arrd diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Thornton's Anecdotes. ROUSSEAC AND HOWARD. THE confessions of Rousseau,... | |
 | 1823 - 494 էջ
...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." Tbe following «¡»guiar and truly whimsical wmenttf honorable is extracted... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 578 էջ
...seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the era-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." See Spence's Anecdote-, by SW Singer, page 54. terial universe, as the bidden... | |
 | 1824 - 312 էջ
...like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now $nd then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." CALMUCJiS. The following account of these singular people is given by Dr.... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825 - 504 էջ
...contemplating at the same time the superior importance of the Bible, with piety and humility he exclaimed, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...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... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 էջ
...(Introd.) And the greatest of men, Sir Isaac Newton, is reported to have said, a little before his death, ' I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me' — (See Turner's Collections from Town and Vicinity of Grant ham, 1806.) Such... | |
 | 1832 - 442 էջ
...learned and what remained unknown. " I do not know," he finely said, a short time before his death, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself, I...lay all undiscovered before me." What a lesson to ordinary men! to the vanity and presumption of philosophers! to those especially who have never even... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 650 էջ
...respect for poetiy. CHATHAM. His 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before me." CHESTERFIELD. Surely Nature, who had given him the volumes of her greater... | |
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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... 
