...Newton, after all the discoveries by which he enlightened and astonished the world, " I seem to myself to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me ;" but much more truly may the Christian say this of Christ. Oldest and most...

...before his death expressed a similar sentiment — ' I do not know what I may appear tu the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell ordinary, while the vast ocean of truth ies still undiscovered before me.' A SLEEPY HAT. —...

...his death, Dr Pemberton tells us, he observed : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...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...

...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." What a lesson to the vanity and presumption of philosophers, — to those...

...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." i The following aneedote is recorded by Condnitt, as showing Sir Isaac's indifference...

...said the sage, " what I may seem to the world ; but as to myself, I seem to have been only like а boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." See also Nichols's " Illustr. of Literature," vol. iv. p. 16. — TUDD. 1...

...ocean of truth is still unexplored. " I do not know," said he, " what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." * "Whatever may...

...ocean of truth is still unexplored. " I do not know," said he, " what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing...and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."* The attainments...

...with that remarkable utterance of his death-bed, " I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." His body lay in state in the Jerusalem Chamber, was buried in Westminster...

...him beloved as well as revered, around the World : ' I know not what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' And yet these 'smoother pebbles' which he had found, were the laws of gravitation...