268 STUDIES OF NATURE. 



mids, urns, bas-reliefs, medallions, flatues, tablets, 

 periftyles, domes; I would not have them crowded 

 together, as in a reppfitory, but difpofed with taflej 



neither 



WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR, 



Whofe excellent genius opened to him the whole heart of IMait, 

 all the mines of Fancy, all the flores of Nature ; and gave him 

 power, beyond all other Writers, to move, aftonifh, and delight 

 Mankind. 



JOHN LOCKE, 



Who, beft of all Philofophers, undtrftood the powers of the 

 Human Mind, the nature, end, and bounds of Civil Govern- 

 ment ; and, with equal courage and fagacity, refuted the flavifti 

 fyilems of ufurped authority over the rights, the CQnfciences, or 

 the reafon of Mankind. 



SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 

 Whom the God of Nature made to comprehend his Works ; 

 and, from fimple principles, to difcover the Laws never known 

 before, and to explain the appearances, never uaderftood, of 

 this flupendous Univerfe, 



SIR FRANCIS BACON, (Lord Verulam.) 

 Who by the ftrength and light of a fuperior genius, reje<fling 

 vain fpeculation, and fallacious theory, taught to purfue truth, 

 and improve Philofophy by the certain method of experîment. 



KING ALFRED, 



The mildefl:, jufteft, moft beneficent of Kings ; who drove out 

 the Danes, fecured the Seas, proteéled Learning, eftabliflied Ju-, 

 ries, cruflied Corruption, guarded Liberty, and was the Founder 

 of the Englifli Conftitutio|i. 



EDWARD, 



