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fame, let the living take care of that: but so as they —
may understand that it does not belong to the dead. but
lovely death is undergone with the greatest ease, when our
departing Soul can comfort itself with its own praises.
no one ever lived too short, who had performed a —
compleat course of perfect virtue. I had once many things
happened to me opportunely for death, which I wish I could
have suffered then, for I sought no further fame; ——
Employments were heaped upon me; besides success in wars.
therefore if by reason we are not armed against death; yet
we may think by our former life, that we have lived long
enough. for although all sense and feeling is gone, yet
the dead are not without their good which consists in —
praise and Glory and that lasting, (although they do not
think.) for although glory no intrinsick value; it only
attends virtue like a shadow; and a true Judgment of the
multitude concerning good men is still more praise
worthy, than they who are on that account happy; yet
I can not say, how this will be received, that Sycargus,
and Solon are destitute of the glory of having enacted good
laws and enforced military discipline; Themistocles,
and Epaminondas of that having been great warriors.
for sooner shall Neptune overwhelm Salamin itself,
than the victory at Salamin be forgotten; and sooner
will Leuctra be taken away, than the glory of the —

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Identifier: | JB/537/117/002 "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	117	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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