Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . to do nowork. He then retired altogether from public life, and devoted himself entirelyto the study of the Scriptures. In this manner he passed about two years, andthen expired on the 28th of October, 1704, in the seventy-second year of hisage. His Essay on the Human Understanding has given Locke an immor-tal name in English literatur
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . to do nowork. He then retired altogether from public life, and devoted himself entirelyto the study of the Scriptures. In this manner he passed about two years, andthen expired on the 28th of October, 1704, in the seventy-second year of hisage. His Essay on the Human Understanding has given Locke an immor-tal name in English literature and in the history of philosophy. It has un-doubtedly contributed more than any other book to render popular the study ofthe important subject of which it treats; and, whatever difference of opinionmay be entertained with regard to some of its fundamental doctrines, it will beacknowledged by every candid judge to have thrown much new light on manyof the operations of the human mind. As to the private character of this ad-mirable man, it was one of the most beautiful and stainless that ever adornedhuman nature ; and rarely has there been seen a nobler example than he ex-hibited of the union of high intellect and equally elevated virtue. [SAAC NEWTON. 213. ISAAC NEWTON. ISAAC NEWTON, the most distinguished philosopher, mathematician, andastronomer of modern times, was born at Woolsthorpe, in Lincolnshire, Eng-land, on Christmas day, December 25, 1642. Losing his father, Isaac New-ton, senior, in his childhood, the care of him devolved on his mother, whogave him an excellent education. In 1654 he was sent lo Gretitham school,and at the age of eighteen removed to Trinity college, Cambridge, where hehad the learned Mr. (afterward Dr.) Isaac Harrow for his tutor. After goingthrough Euclids Elements, he proceeded to the study of Descartes Geometry,with Ouabtreds Clavis and Keplers Optics, in all of which he made marginalnotes as he went along. It was in this early course that he inv
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