 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1861 - 390 էջ
...does that language now appear, at which we were once perhaps amazed : " I do not know," said Newton, " what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What a testimony to the infant ignorance of man ! But we need not soar thus high to establish our doctrine... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 էջ
...the marvellous magnificence of Newton's master mind, as this memorial of his matchless modesty : " I do not know, what I may appear, to the world ; but,...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... | |
 | James Whitton - 1861 - 462 էջ
...humility is with real greatness : — * know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seom to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore,...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." NIN'EVEH, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria, founded by Asshur,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 էջ
...the whole mighty realm of nature. A little before his death, Dr Pemberton tells us, he observed : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." " If I have done the public any service in this way," he writes also to Dr... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 էջ
...famous saying, ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been ouly like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' " — Newton's Life.] Newton, (that proverb of the mind,) alas ! Declared,... | |
 | 1863 - 910 էջ
...world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myielf in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." WH fffo £igbt of fife. " Except fye Lord build tho house, they labour in... | |
 | Hannah Ransome Geldart - 1863 - 376 էջ
...to have been only like a boy, playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself with finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before him." There is a great distinction between wisdom and knowledge which is finely... | |
 | Edmund Routledge - 1864 - 1044 էջ
...really knew ; and he recorded this a short time before his death in the following memorable words : " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Above all, Sir Isaac Newton was a sincere believer in, and an earnest critical... | |
 | Dermot Moran, Lester E. Embree - 2004 - 386 էջ
...unforeseeable and even w«thinkable. The great Newton himself was not a stranger to this attitude: "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Notes 1 Norwood Russell Hanson, Patterns of Discovery, Cambridge, England,... | |
 | Martin Garrett - 2004 - 284 էջ
...claimed that "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem only to have been like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Some people, of course, fail to find the special pebbles and shells. And some... | |
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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... 
