cause of the motion of all celestial bodies, and that of gravity on
the earth. But being retired in 1666, upon account of the Plague,
to a solitude near Cambridge; as he was walking one day in his
garden, and saw some fruits fall from a tree, he fell into a
profound meditation on that gravity, the cause of which had so long
been sought, but in vain, by all the philosophers, whilst the vulgar
think there is nothing mysterious in it. He said to himself; that
from what height soever in our hemisphere, those bodies might
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his face. A bank of yellow fog instantly enveloped him,
take the housekeeping, and to help in the nursing, so we
Mission School Building, so called,[133] on Saturday....
one who has been ill, though now, thank God, recovering.
Three or four inches of water now flooded the cave of the
typical of cleansing. Miss Wright, a pretty little box
of the place), and had found him very polite. No doubt
will be present. I am glad that my birthday falls on Sunday;
to peer through the fog ahead, he turned and descended
with joy to the great change; for more than twenty she
possessed for him. So it came that his was a familiar figure
‘I was reading the Commandments aloud in a village yesterday,