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The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . I . T TNDER this title we propose to throw together anecdotes of emi-^ nent persons , historical remarks , and elucidations , extraordinary incidents , and such other curious particulars as may compose an olio of entertainment and utility . We need but just add , that communications for this department of our miscellany will be peculiarly acceptable .
SIR ISAAC NETVTQN . THE accounts we have of the birth-place of Sir Isaac Newton are so interspersed in different books , that it is attended with no small trouble to collect them together , in order to form an idea of the circumstances and place that gave rise to the greatest genius the world ever produced . To a Magazinewhose object it is to instruct and
, entertain , the following anecdotes of that great man , the ornament of human nature , may , perhaps , not be unacceptable . Woolsthorpe , a hamlet of Colsterwortb , eig ht miles south of Grant-ham , on the great road from London to the north , is situated in a pleasant little hollow , on the west side of the river Witham ; it has a good prospect eastwardtoward Colsterworih . The country hereabouts is
, thought to be the Montpeliier of England ; the air is exceedingly good ,, the sharpness of the Mediterranean being tempered by the softness of the low parts of Lincolnshire , which makes a fine medium , agreeable to most constitutions . The country itsejf is beautiful , and nothing can be imagined sweeter than the ride between Woolsthorpe and Grantham .
Such is the place that produced the greatest genius of the human race . Sir Isaac Newton , only child of Isaac Newton , by Hannah his wife , daughter of James Ayscough , of Market Overton , was born on Christmas-da }' , 1642 . Pie was a posthumous child , his father dying the 6 th of October , 1642 . His mother was married again to Barnabas Smith , rector of North Witham , whose descendants came in for a share of Sir Isaac ' s personal estate . His paternal estate at Woolsthorpe
( which had been in the family ever since the time of Queen Elizabeth ) descended to John Newton , who was derived from his father ' s second brother . Sir Isaac was educated at Grantham school , under the Rev . Mr . Stokes , who was reputed a very good scholar , and an excellent schoolmaster . His great genius was first discovered at Trinity College ,
Cambridge , of which he was a member , and where there is one of the most elegant modern status ^ in Europe erected to his memoiy . Of this prince of philosophers , it is truiy surprising , there is not yet one good memoir in our language . " 1 he learned and venerable prelate who published a complete and elegant edition of his woiks , has compiled a life of Sir Isaac , in Latin , sufficient to make an , additional volume in quarto to those already printed ,
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The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . I . T TNDER this title we propose to throw together anecdotes of emi-^ nent persons , historical remarks , and elucidations , extraordinary incidents , and such other curious particulars as may compose an olio of entertainment and utility . We need but just add , that communications for this department of our miscellany will be peculiarly acceptable .
SIR ISAAC NETVTQN . THE accounts we have of the birth-place of Sir Isaac Newton are so interspersed in different books , that it is attended with no small trouble to collect them together , in order to form an idea of the circumstances and place that gave rise to the greatest genius the world ever produced . To a Magazinewhose object it is to instruct and
, entertain , the following anecdotes of that great man , the ornament of human nature , may , perhaps , not be unacceptable . Woolsthorpe , a hamlet of Colsterwortb , eig ht miles south of Grant-ham , on the great road from London to the north , is situated in a pleasant little hollow , on the west side of the river Witham ; it has a good prospect eastwardtoward Colsterworih . The country hereabouts is
, thought to be the Montpeliier of England ; the air is exceedingly good ,, the sharpness of the Mediterranean being tempered by the softness of the low parts of Lincolnshire , which makes a fine medium , agreeable to most constitutions . The country itsejf is beautiful , and nothing can be imagined sweeter than the ride between Woolsthorpe and Grantham .
Such is the place that produced the greatest genius of the human race . Sir Isaac Newton , only child of Isaac Newton , by Hannah his wife , daughter of James Ayscough , of Market Overton , was born on Christmas-da }' , 1642 . Pie was a posthumous child , his father dying the 6 th of October , 1642 . His mother was married again to Barnabas Smith , rector of North Witham , whose descendants came in for a share of Sir Isaac ' s personal estate . His paternal estate at Woolsthorpe
( which had been in the family ever since the time of Queen Elizabeth ) descended to John Newton , who was derived from his father ' s second brother . Sir Isaac was educated at Grantham school , under the Rev . Mr . Stokes , who was reputed a very good scholar , and an excellent schoolmaster . His great genius was first discovered at Trinity College ,
Cambridge , of which he was a member , and where there is one of the most elegant modern status ^ in Europe erected to his memoiy . Of this prince of philosophers , it is truiy surprising , there is not yet one good memoir in our language . " 1 he learned and venerable prelate who published a complete and elegant edition of his woiks , has compiled a life of Sir Isaac , in Latin , sufficient to make an , additional volume in quarto to those already printed ,