 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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of Truth...  General Mathematics - Σελίδα 418των Raleigh Schorling, William David Reeve - 1919Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1820 - 544 σελίδες
...lamp for him to write tragedy by. — The same. 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 hare been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a... | |
 | 1820 - 856 σελίδες
...tragedy by.' — The tame. ' Sir Isaac tVeiuton.-— Sir Isaac NeWibn, a littte before he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to th'e 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 miding asmoother pebble or... | |
 | 1820 - 760 σελίδες
...and the second with the greatness of his mind. " Sir Issue 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 on the sen. shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a. smoother pebble... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 318 σελίδες
...afterwards followed. — Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. 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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 σελίδες
...afterwards followed. — Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. 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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 σελίδες
...profession. EDITOR— L. ANECDOTE, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, a" little before he died, said, ' I don't know what 1 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 in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | Thomas Byerley - 1823 - 528 σελίδες
...any sort of sustenance. NEWTON'S PHILOSOPHY. — Sir Isaac Newton, a little hefore he died, said, " I don't know what I may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have heen only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother... | |
 | 1824 - 312 σελίδες
...the days of King Henry VII. Newton's Philosophy. — Sir I. Newton, shortly before his death, 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 on the sea shore, and diverting myself in now $nd then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 σελίδες
...he died; and which shows his modest opinion of 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 on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 σελίδες
...the benefits he had conferred upon science, he replied, " Alas ! I know not what I may have appeared to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing with pebbles on the sea shore, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered... | |
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