well paid, must necessarily at last perform more glorious

achievements than others who are mere volunteers. It must indeed be

confessed that the Royal Society boast their Newton, but then he did

not owe his knowledge and discoveries to that body; so far from it,

that the latter were intelligible to very few of his fellow members.

A genius like that of Sir Isaac belonged to all the academies in the

world, because all had a thousand things to learn of him.

The celebrated Dean Swift formed a design, in the latter end of the