sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal," if their practice was so unequal to their precepts. Had this benevolent man and excellent christian (we would say, though Calvin might have predestined him to be damned) done every thing he could to overset the views of the Candidate, instead of taking a refined pleasure (a pleasure they knew not) in promoting them, the common infirmity of human nature would have been pleaded in extenuation of such selfish demeanour towards a man, who he might have said, came to London "to take the bread out of his mouth:"[1] but no such set off could be brought to bear on their own case, for they were not of his trade, when they manifested so much envy, jealousy and meanness, particularly in refusing him a check on the computations, although (we repeat that) the commonest sense of equity called for it:[2] and this moral deformity, were their old acquaintance, Juvenal, resuscitated, might have produced from the red-hot pincers, with which his muse was armed, a more biting satire than "words
- ↑ By the favour of a Correspondent, we are enabled to insert the following few particulars of this distinguished Mechanician.—'George Graham was born in 1675, at Gratwick, an obscure village in the North of Cumberland. In 1688 he was sent to London, and apprenticed to a thirty-hour clockmaker. When he was out of his time, he entered the service of Mr. Tompion, one of whose nieces he married. This union proved unfortunate: Mrs. Graham had two sons, whose legitimacy her husband refused to acknowledge. On the 9th March, 1720, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and admitted on the 16th of the same month. And that year, after having, in 1716, become an Assistant, he was chosen Master of the Clockmakers' Company.—He died on the 16th November, 1751, and was interred in Westminster Abbey, on the 24th of that month. He left about £6,000; which was divided between his Widow and her two Sons: she survived him but a short time.'
- ↑ Either from public reproach, or private compunction, they gave up this point, and tacitly admitted the injury that bad been done to him. After the return from Barbadoes, he was desired to name an equal number of Computers, on his own part; but it was then unnecessary, because he personally knew and respected the abilities and fitness of those named by the Board: so that he thought it sufficient to name one only himself to that office.
