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Rh to public view. Until very lately I never had the courage even to look at a peron dying on the tage. The hour of death is not the time for the diplay of paions; nor do I think it natural it hould: the mind is then dreadfully diturbed, and the trifling orrows of this world not thought of. The deaths on the tage, in pite of the boated enibility of the age, eem to have much the ame effect on a polite audience, as the execution of malefactors has on the mob that follow them to Tyburn.

The wort pecies of immorality is inculcated, and life (which is to determine the fate of eternity) thrown away when a king-