 | 1809 - 604 str.
...have been only like a boy, playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself, in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." MSS. Conduitt. Newton begins his first letter to Dr, Bentley, in 1692, thus... | |
 | 1820 - 544 str.
...before he died, said, ' I don't know what I may seem to the world; but as to myself, I seem to hare been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' — Rnnuay. Ti not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great... | |
 | 1820 - 774 str.
...sqem to the world ; but as ta myself, I seem to hare 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."— RAMSAY. " Hir Isaac Newton, though so deep in algebra and fluxions, could... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 str.
...Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, " 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." — Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 str.
...Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, " 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." — Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 str.
...Organum, has laid down the whole method that Descartes afterwards followed.—Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,...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... | |
 | 1820 - 866 str.
...what I may seem to the world ; but us to myself, I seem to have been ouly like a boy plaving on tiic sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — llamtay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 str.
...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.' ' ' , THE ENGLISH MONTHS. — FEBRUARY. WINTER seldom leaves us during this... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 str.
...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 to myself I seem...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." MSS. Conduitt. \ye The following inscription has been placed by Mr. Tumor... | |
 | 1879 - 1042 str.
...philosopher himself think on this subject ? The utterance of his closing days is well known : ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' Is not the infinite greatness of the soul expressed in such a sentiment as... | |
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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... 
