 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 halaman
...better than I do." When his friends expressed their admiration of his discoveries, he said, "To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the sea-shore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me." His countenance was rather calm than expressive ;... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1832 - 650 halaman
...better than I do." When his friends expressed their admiration of his discoveries, he said, "To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the sea-shore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before mo." His countenance was rather culm than expressive ;... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 620 halaman
...better than I do." When his friends expressed their admiration of his discoveries, he said, "To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the sea-shore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me." His countenance was rather calm than expressive :... | |
 | Thomas Harvey Skinner - 1839 - 320 halaman
...great Newton to his friends, on their expressing admiration at his sublime discoveries — " to myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the seashore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me." III. Another of the studies to which the life of... | |
 | Francis Alexander Durivage - 1841 - 794 halaman
...merits. " When hie friends expressed their admiration of his discoveries, he said, ' To myself, I seern to have been as a child playing on the seashore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me.' " NEW YORK, one of the United States, is bounded... | |
 | 1864 - 822 halaman
...Isaac Newton — that sagacious reader of the works of God — is as just as it was modest, " To myself I seem to have been as a child, playing on the seashore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me ! " The man who has taken the most extensive survey... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1849 - 1194 halaman
...and elucidated. When his friends expressed their admiration of his discoveries, he said, " To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the sea-shore, while the imiiK'iise ocean of truth lay unexplored before me." 24.— QUEEN ELIZABETH died, 1603, in the seventieth... | |
 | Charles C. Savage - 1856 - 624 halaman
...subject of religion. When his friends expressed their admiration of his discoveries, he said : "To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the seashore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me." The manor house of Woolsthorpe, where the illustrious... | |
 | William Cowper - 1856 - 464 halaman
...which he made to those friends who were expressing their admiration of his discoveries : " To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the seashore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me." 255-6. Milton, &c. : The genius of the great author... | |
 | Edward Norris Kirk - 1857 - 244 halaman
...Newton, comparing what he knew with what he did not know of God's works, and exclaiming, " To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the sea-shore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me." Here we see the glory of the Son of God contrasted... | |
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To myself I seem to have been as a child playing on the sea-shore, while the immense ocean of truth lay unexplored before me. 
