ACCOUNT OF BOOKS. 
interest and importunity with siz 
formation Greaves.—larkye, -fel- 
low, thou seest the trade which thou 
has taken np is an unprofitable 
trade, therefore get thee gone, lay 
aside an occupation by which thou 
canst gain nothing but a halter, and 
follow that by which thou mayest 
earn an honest livelihood.” Having 
said this, he ordered him to be set 
at liberty, against the remon. 
strances of the bye-standers,\ and 
insisting upon it that the fellow was 
duly penitent for his offence, bade 
him go his way and never steal 
again. 
TJ leave it with those, who con 
sider mercy as one of man’s best at- 
tributes, to suggest a plea for the 
informality of this proceeding, and 
to such+I will communicate one 
other anecdote, which [ do not de- 
liver upon my own knowledge, 
though, from unexceptionable au- 
thority, and this is, that when Col- 
lins had fallen into decay of circum- 
stances, doctor Bentley, suspecting 
he had written him out of credit 
by his Philoleutherus Lipsiensis, se- 
cretly contrived to administer to 
the necessities of his baffled oppo- 
nent, in a manuer that did no less 
credit to his delicacy than to his 
liberality. 
‘¢ A morose and over-bearing man 
will find himself a solitary being in 
creation; doctor Benticy, on the 
contrary, had many intimates ; 
judicious in forming his friendships, 
he was faithful in adhering to them, 
With sir Isaac Newton, doctor 
Mead, doctor Wallace, of Stamford, 
baron Spanheim, the lamented Ro- 
ger Cotes, and several other distin- 
guished and illustrious contempora- 
rics, he lived on terms of uninter- 
rupted harmony, and have good 
authority for saying, that it is to hig 
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Isaac Newton, that the inestimable 
publication of the Principia was 
ever resolved upon by that truly 
great and luminous philosopher. 
Newton’s portrait, by sir James 
Thornhill, and those of baron Span- 
heim and my grandfather, by the 
same hand, now hanging in the 
master’s lodge of Trinity, were the 
-bequest of doctor Bentley. I was 
possessed of letters insir [saac’s own 
hand to my grandfather, which, to- 
gether with the corrected volume of 
bishop Cumberlant’s Laws of Na- 
ture, I lately gave to the library of 
that ilourishing and illustrious 
college. 
*¢ The irreparable loss of Roger 
Cotes in early life, of whom New- 
ton had pronounced — Now the world 
will know something, doctor Bentley 
never mentioned but with the deep- 
est regret; he had formed the 
highest expe¢tations- of new lights 
and Uiscoveries in philosophy, from 
the penetrating force of his extra- 
ordinary genius, and on the tablet 
devoted to his memory in the cha- 
pel of ‘Trinity College, doctor Bent. 
ley has recorded his sorryws and 
those of the whole learned world, in 
the following beautiful and pathetic 
epitaph : ; 
Hr Sak 
<¢ Rogerus Roberti filius Cotes, 
Hujas Collegii S. ‘lrinitatis Socius, 
Et Astronomiz et experimeotalis 
Philosophie Professor Plumianus : 
Qui immatura morte prereptus, 
Pauca quidem ingenii sui 
Pignora reliquit, 
Sed egregia, sed admiranda, 
Ex intimis Matheseds penetralibus, 
_ Felici Solertia tum primum ernta 3’ 
Post magnum illum Newtonum 
323 Societatis 
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