 | 1860 - 612 pages
...absolute and literal sense than Newton could,—say, after all our work is accomplished, that we " seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before us." But yet let us remember this at least, that that great ocean of truth does... | |
 | Amédée Pichot - 1860 - 284 pages
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."* This reflection of Newton, like that of Charles Bell, belongs, it is true,... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1860 - 638 pages
...to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself m now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Thus, these investigations about earthquakes are not mere matters of curiosity... | |
 | Artemas Bowers Muzzey - 1861 - 392 pages
...world, but 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What a testimony to the infant ignorance of man ! But we need not soar thus... | |
 | James Whitton - 1861 - 462 pages
...world ; but to myself I seom 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." NIN'EVEH, the capital of the ancient kingdom of Assyria, founded by Asshur,... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...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...ordinary : whilst the great ocean of truth lay, all undiscovered, before me." And, yet, the planets, of whose laws, he was the first interpreter, are but... | |
 | John Cooper Grocott - 1863 - 562 pages
...world ; but to myself I seem to have been ouly like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' " — Newton's Life.] Newton, (that proverb of the mind,) alas ! Declared,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 818 pages
...; 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." " If I have done the public any service in this way," he writes also to Dr... | |
 | 1863 - 910 pages
...world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myielf in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." WH fffo £igbt of fife. " Except fye Lord build tho house, they labour in... | |
 | Russell McCormmach - 2004 - 278 pages
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." His biographer, who otherwise emphasizes the domineering side of Newton's... | |
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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... 
