46 SIR ISAAC NEWTON. 



proposed to a lady when he was fifty. The 

 lady asked for time to take the matter into 

 consideration, and as Leibnitz thus obtained leis- 

 ure to consider the matter again, he was never 

 married. 



For thirteen years Sir Isaac lived on Jermyn 

 Street, London; then moved to Chelsea, a place 

 dear to those who love George Eliot or admire 

 Carlyle ; and then to Martin Street, near Leicester 

 Fields. 



In his latter years he wrote much on theological 

 subjects, especially to prove the existence of a 

 Deity. When he was eighty -three he published a 

 third edition of the " Principia." At eighty-five he 

 read manuscript without spectacles. He reasoned 

 as acutely as ever, his memory alone failing. 



On March 2, 1727, he presided at a meeting of 

 the Royal Society. He was taken ill on the fol- 

 lowing day, and, although a great sufferer for sev- 

 eral days, never uttered a complaint. He died on 

 Monday, March 20, and his body was laid in the 

 Jerusalem Chamber, and thence conveyed to West- 

 minster Abbey for burial. The pall was supported 

 by the Lord High Chancellor and several Dukes and 

 Earls. 



On the front of his monument are sculptured 



-youths, bearing in their hands emblematic designs 



. of Newton's principal discoveries. One carries a 



prism, another a reflecting telescope, a third is 



^weighing the sun and planets with a steelyard, 



a fourth is employed about a furnace, and two 



