Footnotes

[278:1] See Coke, page [24].

ISAAC NEWTON.  1642-1727.

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 sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.[278:2]

Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii.

Footnotes

[278:2] See Milton, page [241].

[[279]]