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 Rh highest opinion, & early prognotic of his excellence; would frequently ay, that truly he himself knew something of the mathematics: till he reckond himself but a child in comparion of his pupil Newton. He faild not upon all occaions, to give a just encomium of him. & whenever a difficult problem was brought to him to olve, he refer'd 'em immediately to Newton.

it eems to me, likely enough, that Sr. Iaac's early use, & expertness at his mechanical tools, & his faculty of drawing, & deigning, were of ervice to him, in his experimental way of philoophy: & prepar'd for him, a olid foundation to exercise his trong reaoning facultys upon; his agacious discernment of caues, and effects, his most penetrating invetigation of methods to come at his intended purpose; his profound judgment; his invincible contancy, & perevereance in finding out his olutions, & demontrations, & in his experiments; his vast trength of mind, in protracting his reaonings, his chain of deductions; his indefatigable attachment to calculations; his incomparable kill in algebraic, & the like methods of notation; all thee united in one man, & that in an extraordinary degree, were the architects that raid a building upon the experimental foundation, wh