Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-02
SIR WILLIAMS ANpaoMn1rn.
his Death a, ror'y-cirh, Prevented hin
from Testing ~ for sevsut, yoAs.

hh b'ht" W i"''f-'tkNt Prevented Him
from Testing ~ for seventy yoAs.
Sir William Jones the friend of
DR.. Franklin and ot on other good
men, lived only to b. forty.eight
years old But he hafconsbncted a
eystom which he called his sAndro.
meter iy which the life Of O. man
up to seventy years was carefully
mapped out with n view To his b,s.t
education and practical virtues.
Thus from ono year old M to ten
the child WIS TO attend 10 speaking
and pronunciation, spelling. reading
and repeating the grammar Of his
own tongue, morals and religion,
natural history with experiments.
dancing. music and drawing BE.
tween ten aud fifteen he was to
learn the history Of his own country.
Latin and Greek, French and Italian
German IN IVA not bcing regarded
as Important At tiftcen ne was TO
make tiabslatious, wl1te compost.
tons In prose and verse, etc, and
from that age mp TO twenty was 10
study rhetoric and law, history and
mnthematics, with logic aud doyla
nation thrown ia.
From twenty TO twenty-five the
andrometer man was 10 study phi
losophy ami politics, ancient oratory,
etc, aud az twontJ. i've begin travels
and cultivate conversation At tmr
ty he was 10 enter public life, having
previously made speeches. studied
state affair and advanced In history.
law and olcquenoc, ~ am fully con.
WINGED" he wrote, st the age Of
thirty-four, to Lord Althorpe, that
On Englishman's real Importance in
lis country win always be in n com.
pound ratio of his virtue, his knowl.
edge and his eloqucnce, without all OF
which qualities little real utility can
result from either of them apart"
lie also thought that ~ viruOus
and knowing man, who has no nat
ural inpcdiment, may by habit ac
quire perfect eloquence." Lord Gran.
by, however 1.-THE famous 'murkis'),
will never be eloquent until he Is
less modest" Aud then. in III.
while Chatham Fox aud Burke were
all IN parliament, Jones grievos that
our senate ~ dwindlcd into a school
of rhetoric, where men rise 10 dis
play their abilities rather than TO de.
libcrate, and wish TO be admired
without hoping TO convince"
But 10 go on with our andromcter
At thirty the "civil knowledge"
is to be mature and tho "elo.
quence perfect" from that age to
forty.fve national rights arc de
Tended, "the learned protected the
virtuous assisted, science improved,
fine arts patronized and laws enacted
and supported" The andrometcr
man, having done all this, at forty
five attends TO "the government and
his family, education of his children,
hrmness rs n patriot and virtue as
citizen the last eliminating at fifty
years. Between fifty and ilfty.iive
ho is to compose historical, orator
ical, philosophical, political and math-
'iAAAANhi WIN anu Alhli III rllNt
TO sixty continue former pursuits"
At sixty hc would begin TO enjoy
the fruits OF his labors-' glorious
retirement, an amiahle fnmily, uni.
versal respect and Consciousness of a
virtuous life"
Sir William Jones himself never
got into parliament, nor did he at.
tain the hfty years, dying in India
ut the age Of forty-eight in l7'l.
But he was vigilant as a magistrate
firm rs patriot and virtuous as u
citizen, and he composed most OF the
works h mentioned. Indeed, being
made perfect in n short time, he full.
filed long time.' lie was not
without the Englishmans desire for
money, and said by the time he was
twonty-eight he hoped 10 DO worth
100000 by the practice'of the law.
He had accumulated much more
than this at forty-oight, besides a
great deal OF rcnown. But ! do not
see any pounds, shillings or pence in
the andrometcr. Boston Advertiser,