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226 which his Father had et him, would have been reduc'd to the Extremes of Miery, had he not been patroniz'd by Monieur Fagon.

the Circumtance which motly encourages the Arts in England, is the great Veneration which is paid them. The Picture of the prime Miniter hangs over the Chimney of his own Cloet, but I have een that of Mr. Pope in twenty Noblemens Houes. Sir Iaac Newton was rever'd in his Life-time, and had a due repect paid to him after his Death; the greatet Men in the Nation diputing who hou'd have the Honour of holding up his Pall. Go into Wetminter-Abbey, and you'll find that what raies the Admiration of the Spectator is not the Mauoleums of the Englih Kings, but the Monuments which the Gratitude of the Nation has erected, to perpetuate the Memory of thoe illutrious Men who contributed to its Glory. We view their Statues in that Abbey in the ame Manner, as thoe of Sophocles, Plato and other immortal Peronages were view'd in Athens; and