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" 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 seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth... "
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The Dublin review, Volume 39

1855 - 554 pages
...recognized his own littleness, and a short time before his death be uttered this memorable sentence: ' I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 39

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1855 - 554 pages
...recognized his own littleness, and a short time before his death he uttered this memorable sentence: ' I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,...
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Miscellaneous Essays and Reviews, Volume 2

Albert Barnes - 1855 - 376 pages
...much yet remains to be known ! Remember the modest and beautiful declaration of the aged Newton : " I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but to myself I seem only to have been like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...
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The Bible defender, ed. by J.H. Rutherford

1856 - 902 pages
...had not been more jealous of 1ш honour than he was himself. He said a little before his death, ' 1 do not know what I may appear to the world, but to...I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the eea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a pebble or я prettier shell than ordinary,...
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Lives of the Illustrious, Volumes 1-2

1856 - 754 pages
...self-confidence, and remind us that we do but touch the confines of truth. " I don't know," he said, " 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 than ordinary, while the...
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Discovery of Cosmic Fractals

Yurij Baryshev, Pekka Teerikorpi - 2002 - 412 pages
...together, and offered the ground for the study of the universe for two centuries. Newton himself felt that "I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, . . . , whilest the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me". But to many of his predecessors...
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The Behavioral Origins of War

D. Scott Bennett, Allan C. Stam III - 2009 - 302 pages
...effects associated with carefully controlled changes in the various operational measures. 5 FINDINGS i do not know what i may appear to the world; but...diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. —isaac...
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Unifying the Universe: The Physics of Heaven and Earth

Hasan S. Padamsee - 2002 - 708 pages
...Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (chapter 11). 555 11 UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION: THE FIRST SYNTHESIS I do not know what I may appear to the world, but...boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of...
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The Amount to Carry: Stories

Carter Scholz - 2003 - 236 pages
...Silence. Silence. l.ast words spanned gulfs. — Navigare necesse es. Vivare no es nccesse. AT THE SHORL To myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and again finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth...
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Favourite Wisdom

Deborah Cassidi - 2003 - 196 pages
...Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92), from In Memoriam Virginia Wooderson, English teacher in Tuscany fc==! 1 do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a...
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