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 . citor-general and knighted,and in 1692 appointed attorney-general. In 1697 he was raised to the peerageand made lord-chancellor ; but in 1700 he was removed from his high situation,and accused by the commons of high crimes and misdemeanors, of which, upontrial before his peers, he was acquitted. Somers now abandoned the struggles of p
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 . citor-general and knighted,and in 1692 appointed attorney-general. In 1697 he was raised to the peerageand made lord-chancellor ; but in 1700 he was removed from his high situation,and accused by the commons of high crimes and misdemeanors, of which, upontrial before his peers, he was acquitted. Somers now abandoned the struggles of political life for studious retirement,and was soon after chosen president of the Royal Society. He, however, oc-casionally labored for the prosperity of his country in the house of lords, andprojected the union between Scotland and England. In 1708, he was presi-dent of the council, but was removed by the change of ministry two years grew so infirm, that he held no office under George I. He died April 26,1716, aged sixty-four. He wrote various pieces, and translated Plutarchs lifeof Alcibiades, in the Lives by several hands, and also Didos letter to ^Eneas,from Ovid. He was an able statesman, and a liberal promoter of learning. 222 EDMUND EDMUND HALLE Y. EDMUND HALLEY, an eminent English astronomer and mathematician, wasborn, in 1656. at Haggerston, near London, England. He received his educa*tion at St. Pauls school, and Queens college, Oxford, where he made so greata proficiency in his mathematical studies, that in 1676, he published observa-tions on a spot in the sun, by which the motion of that body on its axis wasdetermined* The same year he went to St. Helena, where he determined theposition of three hundred and fifty stars, which procured him the name of thesouthern Tycho. On his return to England he was created master of arts andchosen a fellow of the Royal Society ; which learned body deputed him to goto Dant/ic, to adjust a dispute between Hooke and
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