Mr. _Pope_'s epitaph on sir _Isaac Newton_, is justly admired
for its conciseness, strength, boldness, and sublimity:
Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night;
God said, _Let_ NEWTON _be_, and all was light.
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Life with Fools consists in Drinking;
With the wise Man Living's Thinking.
Eilen thut selten gut.
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On the 25th of this month, _Anno_ 1599, was OLIVER CROMWELL
born, the son of a private gentleman, but became the conqueror and
protector (some say the tyrant) of three great kingdoms. His son
_Richard_ succeeded him, but being of an easy peaceable disposition,
he soon descended from that lofty station, and became a private man,
living, unmolested, to a good old age; for he died not till about the
latter end of queen _Anne_'s reign, at his lodgings in
_Lombard-street_, where he had lived many years unknown, and seen
great changes in government, and violent struggles for that, which,
by experience, he knew could afford no solid happiness.
_Oliver_ was once about to remove to _New-England_, his goods
being on shipboard; but somewhat alter'd his mind. There he would
doubtless have risen to be a _Select Man_, perhaps a _Governor_; and
then might have had 100 bushels of _Indian_ corn _per Annum_, the
salary of a governor of that then small colony in those days.
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