 | David Bristow Baker - 1831 - 244 sider
...immensely elevated lowliness and humility of that great man's mind. " 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 sea shore; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell more agreeably variegated,... | |
 | 1832 - 644 sider
...think of it. He writes of himself as follows : " 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... | |
 | 1832 - 512 sider
...think of it. He writes of himself as follows : * I know not what the world will think of my labors, bW 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... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 sider
...just admiration his discoveries had universally excited, he said, " 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 sea- shore ; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sider
...just admiration his discoveries had universally excited, he said, " 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 sea- shore ; now finding some pebble rather more pelished, and now some shell rather more agreeably... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sider
...just admiration his discoveries had universally excited, he said, " 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 sea- shore ; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably... | |
 | Edward William Clarke - 1835 - 288 sider
...labours," — these are the words which you are entreated to notice : — " I know not what the world will think of my labours ; but, to myself, it seems that...child playing on the sea-shore : now finding some pebble rather more polished ; and now some shell more agreeably variegated; while the immense ocean... | |
 | Baden Powell - 1837 - 424 sider
...speaks of feeling towards scientific subjects, and the strong revulsion of his mind towards those " mystical fancies," as he himself calls them, in which...my companions, while the unbounded ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me:" — such were the instances in which some of the marked peculiarities... | |
 | 1839 - 352 sider
...not these gipsies speak Englishl * " I know not," said lie, " 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... | |
 | 1851 - 592 sider
...with the illustrious Newton. Towards the close of his life, he said, " I know not what the world will think of my labours ; but to myself it seems that...a child playing on the sea-shore, now finding some pebple rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while... | |
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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 sea-shore; now finding some pebble rather more polished, and now some shell rather more agreeably variegated than another, while... 
