Of knight St. George and of King Henry"
Balliolensis.
Newton and Milton.—Has it been observed that Sir Isaac Newton's dying words, so often quoted,—
"I am but as a child gathering pebbles on the seashore, while the great ocean of truth still lies undiscovered before me."
are merely an adaptation of a passage in Paradise Regained, book iv.:
"Deep versed in books and shallow in himself, Crude or intoxicate, collecting toys And trifles for choice matters, worth a sponge, As children gathering pebbles on the shore."
Anon.
Eternal Life.—In the Mishna (Berachoth, ch. ix. s. 5) the doctrine of a future eternal state is clearly set forth in a passage which is rendered by De Sola and Raphall:
"But since the Epicureans perversely taught, there is but one state of existence, it was directed that men should close their benedictions with the form [Blessed be the Lord God of Israel] from eternity to eternity."
A like explicit declaration of such future state occurs again in the Mishna (Sanhedrin, ch. xi. s. l.).