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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

Hospital; the
many other

y AcadeMy, Woolwich
--...... The members of mechanic
fic . institutions, will find either edit
according to their state and progress in
)r their encouragement we select the following ac-
of Edmund Stone, the Mathematician, from the
uction to the large edition, which contains a history

of great

le of true genius overcoming
fortune, and education."
)n of a gardener of the Duke

ight years of age he WAS taught to read
without further assistance, he had mad(
atical knowledge as. to be abh
as mu

3 read the Principia of 1%1

the Duke

-ewton

Jay walking in hi; garden, he saw a copy of Newton s
Principia lying on the grass, and called some one near the
him to take it back to the library. Young Stone, the with Great Britain, so much more. fOU migh
gardener, modestly observed, that the book belonged to lay down a lumping sum for a protective tariff; with an
-- " ---11.-Ithe Duke ;. 'do you understand understanding that it was to be repealed the next at a mo-
n?" I know a little of them,' derate advance. You would thus ensure the greatest pos.
sith an air of simplicity. The Duke sible variety of political catastrophes, with the least pos-
ring himself a taste for the sciences, sible friction and expense. Again, the furniture of the
ersation with the young mathemati- Capitol is altogether too luxurious. Each member is pro-
m several questions, and was astonished vided with a nrivate desk, stationery ad lib., a stuffed
accuracy, and the candour of his answers. arm-chair, and a particular spittoon. No wonder, then,
1 the Duke, -' came you by the knowledge that your Simmses and Chipmans are listened to with
ngs ?' Stone replied, ' A servant taught ' complacency. It's all in the day's work—it's considered
ince. to read. Does any one need to know in the wages. While these worthies hold forth`for the be-
four letters of the alphabet, in nefit of distant Missouri and Michigan, their colleagues
-4thing else that one wishes ?' The write their letters, read the newspapers, chew tobacco, as
....riosity was redoubled : he sat down on a hank) little boys do toffy in England, and expectorate at-leisure.
Aid requested a detail of all his proceedings.
'i - first No one cheers, no one groans, no one cries Oh ! Oh !
learned to read,' said Stone. ' The masons were then at all the noise that is made is on private account, and not at
ork upon
your house. I went near them one day, and all personal to the gentleman on his legs. Yet, such is
1r
that the architect used a rule and compasses, and that the deceitfulness of the human heart, that the Americans
w calculations. I enquired what might be the are much given to boast of the dignity and decorum of
of these things, and was informed that there was their Legislature, and to thank God that it is not a bear-
..leg garden like another place of the kind that they wot of.
a science called Arithmetic. I purchased a book of
must have been asked at least six times a-day during
Arithmetic, and learned it. T was told there was another we
our visit at Washington " How Congress compared with
ng I found that there were good the British Parliament?" To whiOh we used to reply,
science,called Geometry ; I bought the books, and learned
T. By reading
in these two sciences in Latin : I bought a diction- " That they did not compare at all,"
there an answer which
andtms.:kB learned Latin. I understood also that fully met the truth of the case, without in the least wound-
-e';e *.good books of the same kind in French : I bought , ing the self-love of the querist,—/ilaektrood's Magazine.

with them by the scrape

r with Mexico, so muc
One yea

n, Newto

replied the young man

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