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nor would Decius the father fighting with the Latins, nor
the Son with the Hetruscans, nor the Grandson with
Pyrrhus, have opposed themselve to the Weapons of the Enemy
nor would Spain have seen the Scipios nor Canna Paullus
and Geminus, nor the Latins Albinus, nor Venusia Marcellus,
nor the Lucanians Gracchus fall for their Country, all in
one war. now pray is there ever a one of those, miserable now?
after he has drawn his last breath: no one can be miserable,
when his senses are gone, but that very thing the being
without Sense, is Odious. so it would be indeed, if you stood in
need of it. and whereas it is plain that nothing can be in a —
thing that dos not itself exist, what hateful qualities can there
be in a thing, that has neither Sense nor wants? tho' indeed
it is thought to be so too often: but it is because from this
all the fear of death Proceeds. for any one, that will own,
that when both the body and Soul of a thing is destroyed
and consumed, and an intire destruction has been made,
that Animal which did exist becomes nothing; he must
at the same time plainly perceive that on that account
there is no odds now between the Hyppocentaur, that never
did exist, and Agamemnon who did: and that Camillus
could be no more interested in this Civil war, than I in
the taking of Rome in his time. why then should
Camillus have grieved, if he had heard that a Civil war
was to break out three hundred and fifty years after his

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Identifier: | JB/537/111/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.
Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	111	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Copy/fair sheet	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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