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 . hat theauthor of such a theory as that developed in his great work, with all its de-pendent circumstances, was a mere man with ail the cravings and affections ofmortality. Yet, though his fame among men will last while the science he soenriched shall endure, there was nothing in his personal appearance or modeof life to distinguish hi
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 . hat theauthor of such a theory as that developed in his great work, with all its de-pendent circumstances, was a mere man with ail the cravings and affections ofmortality. Yet, though his fame among men will last while the science he soenriched shall endure, there was nothing in his personal appearance or modeof life to distinguish him from his fellow-men with minds too small to compasshis ideas even when developed with his own simplicity. Yes, the immortalNewton Jived like other men—he ate, and drank, and slept; his dwelling was ;a cottage ; his observatory his own garden ; and here iu the solitude of Wools-thorpe. did he contemplate the glorious works of his Creator, and imagine themeans by which the harmony of the universe is maintained. The manor-house of Woolsthorpe was repaired in 1798, and a marble tabletfixed iu the room where Newton was born, with these lines by Pope :— fl Nature and Natures laws lay hid in night;God said,« Let Newton be, and all was light. WILLIAM WILLIAM PENN. WILLIAM PENN, an illustrious person among the quakers, and founder of thecolony of Pennsylvania, was the son of Sir William Perm, knight, admiral ofEngland, and one of the commanders at the taking of Jamaica. His son William, the subject of the present sketch, was born in the parish of St. Catherine,near the Tower of London, October 14, 1644, and educated at the school ofChigwell in Essex, where, at eleven years of age, says Mr. Wood, beingretired in a chamber alone, he was so suddenly surprised with an inward com-fort, and (as he thought) an external glory in the room, that he has said manytimes how from that time he had tbe seal of divinity and immortality; thatthere was also a God, and that the soul of man wa
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