A prodigious Journey round this little Spot! How much more
natural is _Copernicus_'s Scheme! -- _Ptolomy_ is compar'd to a
whimsical Cook, who, instead of Turning his Meat in Roasting, should
fix That, and contrive to have his whole Fire, Kitchen and all,
whirling continually round it.
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To lead a virtuous Life, my Friends, and get to Heaven
in Season,
You've just so much more Need of _Faith_, as you have
less of _Reason._
To avoid Pleurisies, _&c._ in cool Weather; Fevers, Fluxes,
_&c._ in hot; beware of _Over-Eating_ and _Over-Heating._
The Heathens when they dy'd, went to Bed without a Candle.
Knaves & Nettles are akin;
stroak 'em kindly, yet they'll sting.
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On the 20th of this month, 1727, died the prince of astronomers
and philosophers, sir _Isaac Newton_, aged 85 years: Who, as
_Thomson_ expresses it, _Trac'd the boundless works of God, from laws
sublimely simple._
What were his raptures then! how pure! how strong!
And what the triumphs of old _Greece_ and _Rome_,
By his diminish'd, but the pride of boys
In some small fray victorious! when instead
Of shatter'd parcels of this earth usurp'd
By violence unmanly, and sore deeds
Of cruelty and blood; _Nature_ herself
Stood all-subdu'd by him, and open laid
Her every latent glory to his view.
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