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 mot amiable Motive, from which we can derive the Fear of Death; and yet the longet Enjoyment which we can hope for of this Kind is of o trivial a Duration, that it is to a wie Man truly contemptible. Few Men, I own, think in this Manner: for, indeed, few Men think of Death ’till they are in its Jaws. However gigantic and terrible an Object this may appear when it approaches them, they are nevertheles incapable of eeing it at any Ditance; nay, tho’ they have been ever o much frightned and alarmed when they have apprehended themelves in Danger of dying, they are no ooner cleared from this Apprehenion than even the Fears of it are eraed from their Minds. But alas! he who ecapes from Death is not pardoned, he is only reprieved, and reprieved to a hort Day.

‘Grieve, therefore, no more, my dear Child, on this Occaion; an Event which may happen every Hour, which every Element, nay almot every Particle of Matter that urrounds us is capable of producing, and which mut and will mot unavoidably reach us all at lat, ought neither to occaion our Surprize, nor our Lamentation.