15 It is for you that I feel, and I can judge of your sentiments by comparing them with my own. In four days ! in your absence", in that of her children ! But she is now at rest? and if there be a future life, her mild virtues have surely 28 entitled her to the reward of pure and perfect felicity. I always hoped that she would spin her feeble thread to a long 10 duration", and that her delicate frame" would survive (as is often the case '2) many constitutions of a stouter appearance. Quod si quis etiam inferis sensus est qui illius in te amoro fuit, pietasque in omnes suos, hoc certe illa te facere non vult. Pessime 35 cum iis esse actum, quibus sine dolore licitum est 20 mortem cum vita commutare?. Hoc uno incommodo addito', quid ad dolorem 15 adiungi potuit? aut quio non in illis rebus exercitatus animusĬallere iam debet, atque omnia minoris existimare? An illius 8 vicem, credo, doles? Quoties in eam cogitationem necesse est et tu veneris, et 84 nos saepe incidimus hisce temporibus, non Quid est, quod tanto opere te? commoveat tuus dolor intestinus ? Cogita, quemadmodum adhuc fortuna nobiscum egerit ea 11 nobis erepta esse, quae hominibus non minus quam liberi caraĮsse debent, patriam, honestatem, dignitatem, honores omnes. Genus" hoc consolationis miserum atque acerbum est, tamen, quae in praesentia in mentem mihi venerunt, decrevi brevi ad te perscribere non quo ea te fugere existimem, sed quod forsitan dolore impeditus, minus ea perspicias. Quio si istic affuissem, neque tibi 5 defuissem, coramque meum dolorem tibi declarassem. CICERONI S.D.-Posteaquam mihi renuntiatum 12 est de obitu Tulliae, filiae tuae, sane quam pro eo ac debui graviter molesteque tuli, communemque eam calamitatem existimavi. Amisit enim filiam quae non minus mores eius quam os vultumque referebat totumque patrem mira similitudine exscripserat".ģ7. Omnia quae audiit saepe quae dixit aspernatur expulsisque 25 virtutibus aliis pietatis est totus. Est quidem ille eruditus et sapiens, sed nunc Quod gaudium quo maerore mutatum est! Non possum ex20 primere verbis quantum animo vulnus acceperim, cum audiviįundanum ipsum praecipientem", quod in vestes margarita gemmas fuerat erogaturus, hoc in tus et unguenta et odores inpenderetur. O triste plane acerbumque funus! o morte ipsa mortis tempus indignius! iam destinata erat egregio iuveni, iam electus nuptiarum dies, iam nos vocati. 15 Duravit hic illi usque ad extremum nec aut spatio valetudinisĪut metu mortis infractus est. Que se destitutam corporis viribus vigore animi sustinebat 29. Ut parce custoditeque ** ludebat! Qua illa temperantia, qua patientia, qua etiam constantia novissimam valetudinem tulit! Medicis obsequebatur, sororem, patrem adhortabatur, ipsam Alas! what is life, and what are our 5 hopes and projects! When I embraced her at your departure" from Lausanne, could I imagine that it was for the last time? when I postponed to another summer my journey to England, could I apprehend that I never, never should see her again ? (36.) My dearest friend, After too long a silence I was sitting down to write, when, only yesterday morning (such is now the irregular" slowness of the English post"), I was suddenly struck, indeed struck to the heart, by the fatal intelligence is from sir Henry Clinton. but as often as he heard it read over, which he did two or three times, he laughed so heartily at the parody that he could not bear the thoughts of parting with it * You see there is nothing at all ill-natured in it, ando as it adds a considerable strength, I think, to the argument, I should be rather sorry it were out. Sam, as often as he considered it in the abstract", was for suppressing it, because Blackstone is 15 dead, and it is 30 harping on the old string, &c. The chapter on Blackstone I give you full power over. What I send 10 you at large is only the middle the condemned head and tail I send you only the contents of : somewhat of their history” you will find in margin of said contents. Don't let any very flagrant absurdities 12 go for want" of correction or erasure : false or dubious law I don't so much care about, provided you correct it or clear it up in a note. Douglas's phlegm" might be trusted, but he is Attorney-general by this time 34, and has not time. Abuse itand keep it, or abuse it and print it, as to your wisdom may seem meet, Don't let Trail see it or hear it (the blasphemous 14th letter I mean) till he has 29 submitted to have his hands tied behind him, for fear of 5 mischief. (35.) I send for your edification", a Defence of Usury and some other enormities.
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