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 . poor. The prince of Wales contributed twenty guineas a yearto this fund. Captain Coram died March 29, 1751, at his lodgings near Leicester square,in the eighty-fourth year of his age. His last request was that he might be buriedin the chapel of the foundling hospital. Six of the governors supported thepall which covered his remains, a
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 . poor. The prince of Wales contributed twenty guineas a yearto this fund. Captain Coram died March 29, 1751, at his lodgings near Leicester square,in the eighty-fourth year of his age. His last request was that he might be buriedin the chapel of the foundling hospital. Six of the governors supported thepall which covered his remains, and many other friends of the institution werepresent. The choir of St Pauls Cathedral attended voluntarily anil took apart in the funeral service. Soon after the charter of incorporation for the foundling hospital had beenobtained, it was moved by Dr. Mead that the special thanks of the governorswere due to Captain Coram for his indefatigable and successful applicationin favor of the charity, which otherwise would have wanted a legal portrait by Hogarth (from which our engraving is taken) is at the hospital,and his services to it are recorded in an inscription over his remains. Severalstreets westward of the institution are named after JOSEPH ADDISON. JOSEPH ADDISON, so highly celebrated in English literature, was the son olDr. Lancelot Addison. He was born May 1, 1672, at Milston, and, after re-ceiving the rudiments of an English education at Salisbury and Litchfield, wassent to the charterhouse, where he contracted his first intimacy with Mr., after-ward Sir Richard Steele. At the age of fifteen, he was entered of Queenscollege, Oxford, where he soon became distinguished for classical literature,and for his skill in Latin poetry. At twenty-two, he addressed some Englishverses to the veteran poet, Dryden; and shortly afterward published a transla-tion of part of Virgils fourth Georgic. In 1695, he addressed a complimen-tary poem, on one of the campaigns of
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