 | 1832 - 442 halaman
...learned and what remained unknown. " I do not know," he finely said, a short time before his death, " 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... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1826 - 650 halaman
...respect for poetiy. CHATHAM. His words are these : " 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,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 halaman
...is told of Sir Isaac Newton : " I don't know," said the sage, " 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, or a prettier shell, than... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1828 - 412 halaman
...more jealous of his honor than he was himself. He said, a little before his death, " 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 pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | 596 halaman
...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 Dick - 1829 - 308 halaman
...the attention of the human mind, — and yet he declared, a little before his death, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1829 - 414 halaman
...more jealous of his honor than he was himself. He said, a little before his death, " 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 shoie, and diverting myself in now and then rinding a prettier pebble or shell than ordinary, whilst... | |
 | 1832 - 698 halaman
...modesty and humility of a child, he felt that he had done comparatively little. "I do not know, says he, 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 with now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | 1829 - 460 halaman
...Newton a sentence in the spirit of Shakspeare -. ' 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 himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | 1829 - 476 halaman
...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, or a prettier shell than... | |
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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... 
