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 lasting act of parliament, my dear brother,—All must die.

"If my son could not have died, it had been matter of wonder,—not that he is dead."

"Monarchs and princes dance in the same ring with us."

"—To die, is the great debt and tribute due unto nature: tombs and monuments, which should perpetuate our memories, pay it themselves; and the proudest pyramid of them all, which wealth and science have erected, has lost its apex, and stands obtruncated in the traveller's horizon." (My father found he got great ease, and went on)—"Kingdoms and provinces, and towns and cities, have they not their periods? and when those principles and powers, which at first cemented and put them together, have performed their several