 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...  The Quarterly Christian Spectator - Page 1241832Full view - About this book
 | 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 retired and uncourtly scholar eau pos in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean... | |
 | 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 and it Were in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...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, while the vast ocean of truth lay still undiscovered before me." — Dr. Brewster's Life of Sir Isaac Newton,... | |
 | 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...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself In now and then finding a smoother pebble or a pret tier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean... | |
 | 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...boy, playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of... | |
 | Reference - 2004 - 516 pages
...refuse to accept the lies and rationalizations of the established order. — Dick Gregory I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...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... | |
 | Sango Mbella - Business & Economics - 2005 - 304 pages
...occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth. -Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...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... | |
 | G. Ali Mansoori - Technology & Engineering - 2005 - 358 pages
...Cambridge, UK, (1988). Chapter 5 Molecular Dynamics Simulation Methods for Nanosystems "/ do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem...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... | |
 | David Warren Cohen, James M. Henle - Computers - 2005 - 1014 pages
...Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half. — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz / do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem...like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting m\self in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great... | |
 | 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 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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