 | Samuel Pepys - 2000 - 608 Seiten
...endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and there a note in short-hand with my own hand. 1 And so I betake myself to that course which [is] almost...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me. May. 31. 1669. SP° a 54 ruled pages and 3 unruled end-sheets are left blank. 1. He never kept any... | |
 | Holbrook Jackson - 2001 - 676 Seiten
...reading; little more than twelve months later his sight so fades that he has to close his beloved Diary: which is almost as much as to see myself go into my...will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me!3 IV. OF BIBLIA A-BIBLIA I must here insert some few further words on preferences, for, as I have... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 Seiten
...announced the end of the enterprise. And so', he writes for the last time, in the coda's closing sentence, 'I betake myself to that course which [is] almost...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me' (Diary, vol. ix p. 565). But this cessation is itself equivocal, even procrastinatory. 'To see myself... | |
 | 1918 - 456 Seiten
...down no more than is fit for them and all the world to know; or if there be anything, I must endeavor to keep a margin in my book open, to add here and...blind, the good God prepare me ! SP May 31, 1669. END OF THE DIARY SIR ISAAC NEWTON SIR ISAAC NEWTON THE GREATEST OF SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHERS 1642-1727... | |
 | 1905 - 868 Seiten
...indicates the manner in which the diary is to be continued, and concludes : " And so I betake myself 11 that course, which is almost as much as to see myself...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me." Of the new edition we can only say that its possession is one of the most covetable of gifts, furnishing... | |
 | 1906 - 490 Seiten
...of the " Diary" and ends with the despairing cry nine years later over the threatening blindness, " which is almost as much as to see myself go into my...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me ! " Pepys, of course, did not go blind, but lived many long and useful years after he closed his "... | |
 | 1891 - 1082 Seiten
...words at its close : And BO I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see mvself go into my grave ; for which, and all the discomforts...accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me. That the Diary was closed in 1669 is a still greater loss to us. What a flood of light would not its... | |
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I must endeavour to keep a margin in my book open, to add, here and there, a note in short-hand with my own hand. And so I betake myself to that course, which is almost as much as to see myself go into my grave : for which, and all the discomforts that... 
