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116 lat Des Cartes was natch'd from the World in the Flower of his Age at Stockholm. His Death was owing to a bad Regimen, and he expir'd in the Midt of ome Literati who were his Enemies, and under the Hands of a Phyician to whom he was odious.

e Progres of Sir Iaac Newton's Life was quite different. He liv'd happy, and very much honour'd in his native Country, to the Age of fourcore and five Years.

his peculiar Felicity, not only to be born in a Country of Liberty, but in an Age when all cholatic Impertinencies were banih'd from the World. Reaon alone was cultivated, and Mankind cou'd only be his Pupil, not his Enemy.

very ingular Difference in the Lives of thee two great Men is, that Sir Iaac, during the long Coure of Years, he enjoy'd was never enible to any Paion, was not ubject to the common Frailties of Mankind, nor ever had any Commerce with Women; a Circumtance which was aur'd me by the Phyi-