 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 324 strani
...Organum, has laid down the whole method that J3escartes afterwards followed.—Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, "...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... | |
 | Joseph Spence - 1820 - 322 strani
...Organum, has laid down the whole method that Descartes afterwards followed.—Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. Sir Isaac Newton, a little before he died, said, "...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... | |
 | Bartholomew Prescot - 1822 - 292 strani
...Conduit, that a little before his death he said, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ecean of truth lay undiscovered before me." Never, I believe, did the mind of Newton form a more accurate... | |
 | 596 strani
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." Anecdote of Dr. Desaguliers.—Being invited to an illustrious company, one... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 584 strani
...he died; and which shows his modest opinion of himself and his discoveries in Natural Philosophy. " I dont 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... | |
 | Thomas Hancock - 1824 - 574 strani
...shows his modest opinion of himself and his discoveries in Natural Philosophy. " I dont know what 1 may seem to the world, but, as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sin-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a... | |
 | Englishman - 1824 - 420 strani
...the benefits he had conferred upon science, he replied, " Alas ! I know not what I may have appeared to the world, but as to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing with pebbles on the sea shore, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825 - 504 strani
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." That enlightened and profound reasoner, Mr. Locke, in a letter to a person... | |
 | John Thomas James (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1825 - 416 strani
...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.'— (See Turner's Collections from Town and Vicinity ofGrantham, 1806.) Such... | |
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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... 
