...which party his contemporary had been chieftain. — CHARLES LAMB. 5. I do not know what I may seem to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself with now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean...

...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 shell than...

...For now we see throngi a jlass, " darkly ; * but then face a 2Cor.3.18. i or, in a riddle. mark : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself ] seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then...

..."little." Every school-boy knows, and many school-boys often quote, the confession of Sir Isaac Newton:—" I do not know what I may appear to the world; but...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself bv now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, while the great ocean of truth lay...

...philosopher and true Christian, Sir Isaac Newton, a short time before his death. ' I do not know,' said he, ' what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a prettier pebble or shell...

...philosopher and true Christian, Sir Isaac Newton, a short time before his death. * I do not know,' said he, ' what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem to have been only like a child playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a prettier pebble or shell...

...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, and diverting himself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great...

...Every school-boy knows, and many school-boys often quote, the confession of Sir Isaac Newton : — " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble, or a prettier shell, while the great ocean of truth lay...

...him, that Book was his constant companion. A short time before his death, he said, "I do not know how I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to...like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myielf in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great...

...Book IV. [" A remarkable anticipation," says the Rev. Geo. Gilfillan. u of Newton's famous saying, ' I do not know what I may appear to the 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...