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...before he died, said, ' I don't know what I may seem to the world; but as to myself, I seem to hare been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' — Rnnuay. Ti not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...

...sqem to the world ; but as ta myself, I seem to hare been only like a boy playing on the sea. shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."— RAMSAY. " Hir Isaac Newton, though so deep in algebra and fluxions, could...

...Sir 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...

...Sir 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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...

...Organum, has laid down the whole method that Descartes afterwards followed.—Lord Bolingbroke. NEWTON. have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore,...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."— Ramsay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...

...what I may seem to the world ; but us to myself, I seem to have been ouly like a boy plaving on tiic sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." — llamtay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though so great...

...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...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' ' ' , THE ENGLISH MONTHS. — FEBRUARY. WINTER seldom leaves us during this...

...myself, 1 fccm to have been only like a boy plaving on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now und then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell...than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay ull undiscovered before me." — liamiay. 'Tis not at all improbable that Sir Isaac Newton, though...

...great philosopher himself think on this subject ? The utterance of his closing days is well known : ' I do not know what I may appear to the world ; but...ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.' Is not the infinite greatness of the soul expressed in such a sentiment as...