. Self-made men. at his works have gone through many hundred editions,and are, perhaps, better read than any contemporary poet. Kirke White was buried in the church of All Saints, Cam-bridge, and a tablet was erected to his memory by Mr. FrancisBoot, of Boston, a liberal-minded American gentleman. The tab-let has a medallion by Chantrey, and an inscription by ProfessorSmyth, of which the following is a copy: Warmd with fond hope and learnings sacred flame,To Grantas bowers the youthful poet came;Unconquerd powers the immortal mind displayd,But, worn with anxious thought, the frame decayd:Pale
. Self-made men. at his works have gone through many hundred editions,and are, perhaps, better read than any contemporary poet. Kirke White was buried in the church of All Saints, Cam-bridge, and a tablet was erected to his memory by Mr. FrancisBoot, of Boston, a liberal-minded American gentleman. The tab-let has a medallion by Chantrey, and an inscription by ProfessorSmyth, of which the following is a copy: Warmd with fond hope and learnings sacred flame,To Grantas bowers the youthful poet came;Unconquerd powers the immortal mind displayd,But, worn with anxious thought, the frame decayd:Pale oer his lamp, and in his cell retired,The martyr-student faded and ! genius, taste, and piety sincere,Too early lost midst studies too severe !Foremost to mourn was generous Southey seen;He told the tale, and showd what White had been:Nor told in vain; for oer the Atlantic waveA wanderer came, and sought the poets grave;On yon lone stone he saw his lonely name,And raised this fond memorial to his JAMES WATT. James Watt, the worlds most illustrious mechanic, was bornat Greenock, Scotland, on the 19th of January, 1736. His fatherenjoyed a good social position, and was held in high esteem by hisfellow-townsmen, having been appointed one of the magistrates ofthe town. The subject of our memoir received the rudiments ofhis education in his native place, the delicacy of his health prohib-iting a resort to other and more distant academies. The naturalstudiousness of his disposition was perhaps increased by this weak-liness. Reading supplied the place of rougher and less serviceableexercises. So tenacious was his memory, that at a very early agehe was well informed on many subjects of a scientific character,especially those branches which were connected more or less withmechanics. Except that he was a quiet, amiable, studious youth,we know nothing of any particular importance concerning theearly years of his life. At the age of eighteen he was sent toLondon to be appr
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