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v III. Of his character.

a good part of what I write is from matters of my own knowledg; nor can I well eperate my elf from it without writing aburdly. Nor need I be aham'd to own the little degree of friendhip, he honor'd me withal. tis no mean atisfaction to me that I pas'd the most flourihing part of my life in an age, when there were a number of great men coeval with Sr. Iaac Newton, more than are mention'd in thee memoirs, with mot of whom I was well acquainted: men of great eminence & tation, in all the literary societys then among us. If matters are now omewhat changed, tis owing to the natural revolutions incident to mundane affairs. men & ciences have their easone, thir rie, thir height, and thir declenion. nor is the bet of things, religion excluded from this predicament. nought remains immutable but the overeign author of the whole.