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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1898. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Chap. lvii Of Age T cannot receive that manner, whereby What is we establish the continuance of our life. I a ' natu-see that some of the wiser sort doe greatly rjf e m shorten the same, in respect of the common opinion. What said Cato Junior, to those who sought to hinder him from killing himselfe? Doe I now live the age, wherein I may justly be reproved to leave my life too soone? Yet was he but eight and fortie yeares old. He thought that age very ripe, yea, and well advanced, con-sidering how few men come unto it. And such as entertaine themselves with, I wot not what kind of course, which they call naturall, pro-miseth some few yeares beyond, might do it, had they a privilege that could exempt them from so great a number of accidents, unto which each one of us stands subject by a naturall subjection, and which may interrupt the said course, they propose unto themselves. What fondnesse is it, for a man to thinke he shall die, for, and through, a failing and defect of strength, which extreme age draweth with it, and to propose that terme unto our life, seeing it is the rarest kind of all deaths, and least in use? We only call it naturall, as if it were against nature to see a man breake his necke with a fall; to be drowned by shipwracke; to be surprised with a To die pestilence, or pleurisie, and aa if our ordinarie of age is condition did not present these inconveniences rare unto us all. Let us not flatter our selves with these fond-goodly words; a man may peradventure rather call that naturall, which is generall, common and universall. To die of age, is a rare, singular, and extraordinarie death, and so much lesse naturall than others: It is the last and extremest kind of dying: The further it is from us, so much the lesse is it to be hoped for: Indee...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781235318511
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 76
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235318516
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 154 gr

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