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the modes by which their laws would be discovered, and 

 which, after the lapse of a century, were so beautifully 

 elucidated by Newton. 



The extent of his views was immense. He stood on a Extent of 

 cliff, and surveyed the whole of nature. His vigilant 

 observation of what we, in common parlance, call trifles, 

 was, perhaps, more extraordinary: scarcely a pebble on the 

 shore escaped his notice. It is thus that genius is, from 

 its life of mind, attentive to all things, and, from seeing 

 real union in the apparent discrepancies of nature, deduces 

 general truths from particular instances. 



His powers were varied and in great perfection, (a) 

 His senses were exquisitely acute, (b) and he used them Senses. 



mixed with rashness, See. Our chiefest hope and dependance in the con 

 sideration of the celestial bodies is, therefore, placed in physical reasons, 

 though not such as are commonly so called; but those laws, which no 

 diversity of place or region can abolish, break through, disturb or alter.&quot; 



(a) &quot;Those abilities,&quot; says Dr. Rawley, &quot; which commonly 

 go single in other men, though of prime and observable 

 parts, were all conjoined and met in him; sharpness of 

 wit, memory, judgment, and elocution. I have been in 

 duced to think, that if ever there were a beam of know 

 ledge derived from God upon any man in these modern 

 times, it was upon him; for, though he was a great reader 

 of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but 

 from some grounds and notions from within himself.&quot; 



&quot; For the former three, his books do abundantly speak them, which 

 with what sufficiency he wrote let the world judge, but with what celerity 

 he wrote them I can best testify ; but for the fourth, his elocution, I will 

 only set down what I heard Sir Walter Rawleigh once speak of him by 

 way of comparison (whose judgment may well be trusted), That the Earl 

 of Salisbury was an excellent speaker, but no good penman; that the 

 Earl of Northampton (the Lord Henry Howard) was an excellent penman, 

 but no good speaker; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both. &quot; 

 See Ben Jonson s observations, ante, p. 28. 



(A) Aubrey. See note G at the end. 



