Other great astronomers besides Newton have been endowed with mechanical genius.

There was David Rittenhouse, an American,--lie made a perfect little water-mill when he was only seven or eight years old.

But this sort of ingenuity is but a mere trifle in comparison with the other talents of such men." "It must have been beautiful," said Edward, "to spend whole nights in a high tower as Newton did, gazing at the stars, and the comets, and the meteors.

But what would Newton have done had he been blind?
or if his eyes had been no better than mine ?" "Why, even then, my dear child," observed Mrs.Temple, "he would have found out some way of enlightening his mind and of elevating his soul.
But come; little Emily is waiting to bid you good night.

You must go to sleep and dream of seeing all our faces." "But how sad it will be when I awake!" murmured Edward..