 I know not what the world will think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea-shore ; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while...  The Fundamentals of Astronomy - Page 13by Samuel Alfred Mitchell, Charles Greeley Abbot - 1927 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Religion - 1850 - 454 pages
...retrospect of a life : " I know not what the world will think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea-shore...some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself, unexplored,... | |
 | 1850 - 498 pages
...Newton'a retrospect of a life: "I know not what the world will think of my labors, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea-shore...some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather moro agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself, unexplored,... | |
 | Robert Grant - Astronomy - 1852 - 686 pages
...the great results he had achieved, he replied : " I know not what the world will think of my labours, but to myself it seems to me that I have been but...some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - God - 1853 - 428 pages
...known, felt this conviction more deeply than Newton himself. "I have been but as a child," said he, " playing on the sea-shore ; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended \tse\funexplored... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1873 - 336 pages
...will think of my labours, but to myself it seems to me that I have been but as a child playing upon the sea-shore, now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored... | |
 | William Augustus Guy - 1875 - 430 pages
...retrospect of a life : — " 1 know not what the world will think of my labours, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the sea-shore;...some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Bookbinding - 1880 - 686 pages
..."I know not what the world may think of my labors, but to myself it seems as though I had been but a child playing on the seashore, now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored... | |
 | Robert Routledge - Science - 1881 - 748 pages
...everywhere excited : — " I know not what the world will think of my labours, but to myself it seems that I have been but as a child playing on the seashore...some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another; while the immense ' ocean of truth extended before me... | |
 | Franc Bangs Wilkie - Inventions - 1883 - 700 pages
..." I know not what the -world will think of my labors, but, to myself, it seems that I have been but a child playing on the sea-shore ; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some other shell rather more agreeably variegated than * Age of Apocalypse. Newton. t Let mortals congratulate... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - Conduct of life - 1884 - 648 pages
..." I know not what the world may think of my labors, but to myself it seems as though I had been but a child playing on the seashore, now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while the immense ocean of truth extended itself unexplored... | |
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