At laſt Des Cartes was ſnatch'd from the World in the Flower of his Age at Stockholm. His Death was owing to a bad Regimen, and he expir'd in the Midſt of ſome Literati who were his Enemies, and under the Hands of a Phyſician to whom he was odious.
The Progreſs of Sir Iſaac Newton's Life was quite different. He liv'd happy, and very much honour'd in his native Country, to the Age of fourſcore and five Years.
'Twas his peculiar Felicity, not only to be born in a Country of Liberty, but in an Age when all ſcholaſtic Impertinencies were baniſh'd from the World. Reaſon alone was cultivated, and Mankind cou'd only be his Pupil, not his Enemy.
One very ſingular Difference in the Lives of theſe two great Men is, that Sir Iſaac, during the long Courſe of Years, he enjoy'd was never ſenſible to any Paſſion, was not ſubject to the common Frailties of Mankind, nor ever had any Commerce with Women; a Circumſtance which was aſſur'd me by the
