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Fielding, in 1754 ; Richardson, in 1761 ; Sterne, in 1768* and Dr. 

 Johnson, in 1784. Mrs. Radcliffe died in 1822 ; and Gait, in 1839. 

 Miss Burney, (D'Arblay), Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Roche, and the 

 Misses Porter, are also among, the novelists. D'Israeli, Bulwer, 

 James, Marryat, and Dickens, are still before the public. 



Of British mathematicians, Napier, baron of Marchiston, died in 

 1617; Hariot, in 1621 ; Sir Isaac Newton, alike celebrated in na- 

 tural philosophy, died in 1627 ; Brook Taylor, died in 1741 ; Colin 

 Machurin, in 1746; and Robert Simson, in 1765. Of natural phi- 

 losophers, besides Newton, Roger Bacon, (the friar), died in 1294; 

 Dr. Gilbert, in 1603; Francis Bacon, (Lord Verulam), in 1626; 

 Robert Boyle, in 1691 ; Mitchell, and Dr. Gowan Knight, flourish- 

 ed about 1740 ; Dr. Joseph Black, died in 1799 ; Dr. Joseph Priestley, 

 in 1804 ; Dr. William H. Wollaston, in 1828 ; Sir Humphrey Davy, 

 in 1829; and Sir John Leslie, in 1832. Of British astronomers, 

 John Flamstead, died in 1719 ; Dr. Edmund Halley, in 1742; Dr. 

 James Bradley, in 1762 ; Mr. Ferguson, in 1776 ; Dr. Nevil Mas- 

 kelyne, in 1811 ; and Sir William Herschell, in 1822. Dr. Henry, 

 the chemist, died in 1836. The philosophers and chemists, Brew- 

 ster, Herschell, Dalton, Thompson, Ure, and Faraday, are, we believe, 

 still living. Of British naturalists, and geologists, John Ray, died in 

 1705; Thomas Burnet, in 1715; William Whiston, in 1752; 

 James Hutton, in 1797; Dr. Erasmus Darwin, in 1802; Professor 

 John Playfair, in 1819; and Professor Robert Jameson, is, we be- 

 lieve, still living. Of British physicians and surgeons, Dr. William 

 Harvey, died in 1658; Dr. John May ow, in 1679; Dr. Thomas 

 Sydenham, in 1689; Dr. William Cheseldea, in 1752 ; Dr. William 

 Hunter, in 1783; Dr. John Brown, in 1788; Dr. William Cullen, 

 in 1790 ; Dr. John Hunter, in 1793 ; Dr. John Mason Good, in 

 1827; Dr. Thomas Young, in 1829 ; and Sir Jlstley Paston Cooper, 

 in 1841. Sir Benjamin Brodie, Sir Charles Bell, and Dr. John Bell, 

 are, we believe, still living. 



Of British artists and inventors, Edward Somerset, marquis of 

 Worcester, died in 1667 ; Savary, and Newcomen flourished in 

 1700 ; James Watt, died in 1819 ; Sir Richard Arkwright, died in 

 1792 ; Hargreaves, and Crompton, flourished in 1767 and 1779 ; 

 Rev. Edmund Cartwright, died in 1824 ; and John Harrison, died 

 in 1776. The engineers, James Brindley, died in 1772 : John Smea- 

 ton, in 1792 ; John Rennie, in 1821 ; and Thomas Tel ford, in 1834. 

 Of British architects, Inigo Jones, died in 1652; Sir Christopher 

 Wren, in 1725 ; James Stuart, in 1788 ; and Sir William Cham- 

 bers, in 1796. Of British painters, William Hogarth, died in 1764; 

 Sir Joshua Reynolds, in 1792; George Romney, his rival, in 1802 ; 

 Sir Thomas Lawrence, in 1830; Richard Westall, in 1836; and 

 David Wilkie, we believe, is still living. Of sculptors, John Flax- 

 man died in 1826; but Francis Chantry and Richard Westmacott, 

 are still the ornament of their profession. Among the writers of music, 

 Sir John Hawkins, died in 1789; and Dr. Charles Burney, in 1814. 



5. We come next to the Biography of Central Europe; com- 

 mencing, as in the preceding departments, with Belgium, Holland, 

 and Switzerland. Of Dutch statesmen and warriors, William L, 



