| Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 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...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
| 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...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
| Bartholomew Prescot - 1822 - 292 str.
...believe. 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 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... | |
| 596 str.
...saying of Sir Isaac Newton.—"1 do not know," said the great philosopher, a little before his death, " what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to be only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother... | |
| Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 str.
...himself and his discoveries in Natural Philosophy. " I dont know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier •hell than ordinary, whiLit the great ocean of Truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
| John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 str.
...things.—(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...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
| William Malkin - 1825 - 504 str.
...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...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
| Richard Gooch - 1825 - 248 str.
...reported to have said, a little before he expired—" 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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1826 - 414 str.
...had not been more jealous of his honour than he was himself. He said, a little before his death, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...seashore, 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... | |
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