. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ure and of applied mathematics. In private life Wren was so loveable that he seems never to havemade an enemy ; he lived in high favour through four reigns withouta breath of scandal or envy blowing upon him, and it was only atthe accession of George I that, already in his eighty-sixth year, hewas removed from his office of Surveyor. He was, moreover, somodest and so tactful that, if the parsimony or stupidity of his clientsprevented the execution of his designs on the great scale on which hehad planned them, he was always willing to
. Historical portraits ... the lives of Fletcher .. . ure and of applied mathematics. In private life Wren was so loveable that he seems never to havemade an enemy ; he lived in high favour through four reigns withouta breath of scandal or envy blowing upon him, and it was only atthe accession of George I that, already in his eighty-sixth year, hewas removed from his office of Surveyor. He was, moreover, somodest and so tactful that, if the parsimony or stupidity of his clientsprevented the execution of his designs on the great scale on which hehad planned them, he was always willing to modify them. Had hisgrand design for the rebuilding of London, with a radius of streetsconverging at St. Pauls Churchyard, been carried out, the Citywould have been the most beautiful Capital in Europe ; but no manknew better than Wren the limits of the possible, or was morewilling to do his best within those limits. He was twice married and left a son Christopher, who collectedthe memorials of his fathers life under the title of Parentalia(London, 1750).. Z 2 z o HZ<
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