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The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . V . BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF MR- JOSEPH JACKSON . [ FROM HUTCHUMSOS ' S -HISTORY OF CUMBEBLA . SD . 3 Jackson bornand lived the greatest part of his
MR . Joseph was , time , at Gilcruix . Hi's great abilities as a mineralogist and philosopher were generally known . In the year 17 8 4 he made propositions towards the -discoverv of the longitude , which were published in the Cumberland Packet , " fox the month of May in that year . His philosophical opinion ' s were considered as being very singular , though specious , and supported by powerful reasonings . He attempted to most of its cilesthough he
disprove the Newtonian ' system in prinp , allowed the sun to be a fixed central bony , and the earth a moving one ; but then he insisted that ;' the earth moved in a right line backwards and forwards , by which the- various seasons , & c . were pioduced . He presumed that a degree of compression . ' supplied the place of attraction— -m effect which , he insisted , neither did nor could possibly exist He died in 1789 , at Bourcleauxin France , on his return from Spain ; to which country he travelled about eig hteen months before to
his death , under the patronage of the Spanish . Embassador , _ open a colliery in the province of Andalusia . By his letters to his friends they learned that , although he had done as much as human art and knowledge could do , to answer . the end of his journey , neither the Scotch nobleman who recommended him , nor the Embassador , treated him with generosity or honour ; but on the contrary , he was so ^ ar neglected , that he was not even re-imbursed the expences of his travelit is hastened oil his dissolution
ling ; the thoughts of which , supposed , . A striking lesson to his countrymen , not to trust to the delusive shado \ vs held out by insidious states and treacherous strangers . The steadiness he shewed in persevering in his opinions was only equalled by his good-nature and affability , accompanied by an earnest wish to promote useful science and knowledge . This ingenious man departed this life at the age of fifty years .
SINGULAR ACCOUNT OF MRS . C . CLARKE , BY MR . WHITE OF DUBLIN . GIBBER the elder had a daughter named Charlotte , who also took to thesiape : her subsequent life was one continued series ol misfortune , affliction , and distress , which she sometimes contrived a little to alleviate by the productions of her pen . About the year 1755 , she had worked up a novel for the press , which the writer accompanied " she at this time wi
his friendthe bookseller to hear read ; was a - dow , having been married to one Clarke , a musician , long since dead . Her habitation was a wretched thatched hovel , situated on the way
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The Collector.
THE COLLECTOR .
No . V . BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF MR- JOSEPH JACKSON . [ FROM HUTCHUMSOS ' S -HISTORY OF CUMBEBLA . SD . 3 Jackson bornand lived the greatest part of his
MR . Joseph was , time , at Gilcruix . Hi's great abilities as a mineralogist and philosopher were generally known . In the year 17 8 4 he made propositions towards the -discoverv of the longitude , which were published in the Cumberland Packet , " fox the month of May in that year . His philosophical opinion ' s were considered as being very singular , though specious , and supported by powerful reasonings . He attempted to most of its cilesthough he
disprove the Newtonian ' system in prinp , allowed the sun to be a fixed central bony , and the earth a moving one ; but then he insisted that ;' the earth moved in a right line backwards and forwards , by which the- various seasons , & c . were pioduced . He presumed that a degree of compression . ' supplied the place of attraction— -m effect which , he insisted , neither did nor could possibly exist He died in 1789 , at Bourcleauxin France , on his return from Spain ; to which country he travelled about eig hteen months before to
his death , under the patronage of the Spanish . Embassador , _ open a colliery in the province of Andalusia . By his letters to his friends they learned that , although he had done as much as human art and knowledge could do , to answer . the end of his journey , neither the Scotch nobleman who recommended him , nor the Embassador , treated him with generosity or honour ; but on the contrary , he was so ^ ar neglected , that he was not even re-imbursed the expences of his travelit is hastened oil his dissolution
ling ; the thoughts of which , supposed , . A striking lesson to his countrymen , not to trust to the delusive shado \ vs held out by insidious states and treacherous strangers . The steadiness he shewed in persevering in his opinions was only equalled by his good-nature and affability , accompanied by an earnest wish to promote useful science and knowledge . This ingenious man departed this life at the age of fifty years .
SINGULAR ACCOUNT OF MRS . C . CLARKE , BY MR . WHITE OF DUBLIN . GIBBER the elder had a daughter named Charlotte , who also took to thesiape : her subsequent life was one continued series ol misfortune , affliction , and distress , which she sometimes contrived a little to alleviate by the productions of her pen . About the year 1755 , she had worked up a novel for the press , which the writer accompanied " she at this time wi
his friendthe bookseller to hear read ; was a - dow , having been married to one Clarke , a musician , long since dead . Her habitation was a wretched thatched hovel , situated on the way