 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...  Lives of the Illustrious - Page 161856Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...for poetry. Chatham. His words are these : — ' I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as shades, for speech assuming Held commune with him, as if he an sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...respect for poetry. Chatham. His words are these: — 'I don't know what I may seem to the world ; but as public, I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retir sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 334 pages
...littleness ; and a short time before his death he uttered this memorable sentiment : — " 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 seashore, and diverting myself In now and then finding a smoother pebble or a pret tier shell than... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1799 - 392 pages
...discoveries he had made, when he approached the hour of his dissolution, declared, " 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 seashore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1846 - 618 pages
...for poetry. 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,... | |
 | Martin Garrett - Cambridge (England) - 2004 - 284 pages
...the work of others as President of the Royal Society from 1703. Newton claimed that "I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem only to have been like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding... | |
 | H.E. Gruber, Katja Bödeker - Social Science - 2005 - 564 pages
...experience of the universe is shown in Newton's own remark, and its likeness to Blake's lines: I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...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 me.4... | |
 | Teun Koetsier, Luc Bergmans - Mathematics - 2004 - 716 pages
...a vast ocean. He expressed it in one sentence: "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 me".... | |
 | Robert Fisher - Education - 2005 - 268 pages
...potential for discovery that is in every child when, shortly before his death in 1727, he wrote: / seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea...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 me.... | |
 | Gale E. Christianson - Science - 2005 - 160 pages
...the morning of March 20, at age eighty-four. Not long before his passing he remarked, "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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary,... | |
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