Statue to Sir Isaac Newton. 41 
not to operate even in the rare instances of transcendent merit, 
where matchless —, pesca all possibility of imitation, and 
nothing remains but er in those who contemplate its 
triumphs at a distances that forbids all attempts to approach. 
We are this day assembled to commemorate him of whom the 
consent of nations has declared that he is chargeable with noth- 
ing like a <a exaggeration or local partiality, who pro- 
nounces the name of Newton as that of the greatest genius ever 
bestowed by the ‘bounty of Providence for instructing mankind 
on — frame of the universe, and the laws by which it is gov- 
ern 
> = shea humanum ingenio superavit, et omnes 
; Stellas malty uti eetherius Pat ”—( Lue.) 
. : genius whe ae nkind as far 
As does the mid-day see the midnight star.”—( Dryden.) 
But, though scaling these lofty heights be hopeless, yet is there 
dons subsequently passed, but ~~ ae at a green old age, in his 85th year, but 
tried, on the 20th of March 
athe relations of Sir Isaac, c, who inherited his personal estate, devoted the sum of 
ion mon t to his memory in Westminister Abbey, but in 
erb that a eae is honored everywher own coun 
and pie his own people, has, — recently, been verified e three or four 
ament w: meager for a vacant space of ground which is 
i ove th el 0 
and whose re is an man committee 
was formed to Corry 2" ae this object, and M Thomas Winter, a member of the Town 
Council—to whose zeal and en wend its successful accomplishment is, we 
believe, mainly attributab e—undertook to act as the honorary secretary. Mr. 
Winter at once self in communication with Lord Rosse, Lord Brougham 
4 warm interest in the success of the scheme. Under these auspices the project re- 
ceived the ok of the Royal Sopiety: and the patronage of ren r Majesty and 
who aided the fund by a subscription of £100. A general 
meeting of shen cat a was held in 1854, at St. George’s Hall, L i 
i W British 
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