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 Eoyal 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 



