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THE TEMPLE OF BRITISH WORTHIES, 



by Kent, is a building cut into niches, wherein are placed 

 the following bustos : 



ALEXANDER POPE, 



Who uniting the correctness of judgment to the fire of genius, 

 by the melody and power of his numbers, 

 gave sweetness to sense, and grace to philosophy. 

 He employed the pointed brilliancy of wit to chastise the vices, 

 and the eloquence of poetry to exalt the virtues of human nature, 

 and being without a rival in his own age, 

 imitated and translated, with a spirit equal to the originals, 

 the best Poets of antiquity. 



SIR THOMAS GRESHAM, 



Who by the honourable profession of a merchant, having enriched himself 

 and his country; for carrying on the commerce of the world, built the Royal 

 Exchange. 



IGNATIUS JONES, 



Who, to adorn his country, introduced and rivalled the Greek and Roman 

 Architecture. 



JOHN MILTON, 



Whose sublime and unbounded genius equalled a subject that carried him 

 beyond the limits of the world. 



WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, 



Whose excellent genius opened to him the whole art of man, all the mines of 

 fancy, all the stores of nature; and gave him power, beyond all other 

 writers, to move, astonish, and delight mankind. 



JOHN LOCKE, 



Who, best of all Philosophers, understood the powers of the human mind ; 

 the nature, end, and bounds of civil government; and with equal sagacity, 

 refuted the slavish system of usurped authority over the rights, the con- 

 sciences, or the reason of mankind. 



