Page:Headlong Hall - Peacock (1816).djvu/224

 neath her tyranny, Disease bursts upon him, and sweeps him from the earth."

"Your theory," said Mr. Jenkison, "forms an admirable counterpoise to your example. As far as I am attracted by the one, I am repelled by the other. Thus the scales of my philosophical balance remain eternally equiponderant, and I see no reason to say of either of them: ."