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' | <p>"but when any one had finished his laborious course,<lb/> | ||
"we used to rejoyce over him with praise and gladness."<lb/> | |||
there is something like this in the Consolation of<lb/> | |||
Crantor: for he says one Terinaeus Elysius, being —<lb/> | |||
grievously affected with the death of his Son, came to a<lb/> | |||
Diviner, and asked him what was the cause of such a —<lb/> | |||
calamity; he had given him in so many tablets three<lb/> | |||
verses to this Effect. "Men wander in life with ignorant<lb/> | |||
"minds. Enthynous, by the power of the fates, has possessed<lb/> | |||
"himself of Death. thus it was better for you and him<lb/> | |||
"to amek his exit." by these and such other Authors. they<lb/> | |||
confirm the Judgment which the Gods had <sic>shewn</sic> —<lb/> | |||
by facts. Alcidamas too a Rhetorician of the first —<lb/> | |||
rank among the ancients wrote a book in praise of<lb/> | |||
death; the benefit of which he would insinuate by ——<lb/> | |||
enumerating the many Evils incident to human life: who,<lb/> | |||
<sic>tho'</sic> he had not the Advantage of those proofs which have<lb/> | |||
been so exquisitely extracted by Philosophers, yet was<lb/> | |||
by no means wanting in the Art of <sic>Rhetorick</sic>. but famous<lb/> | |||
"but when any one had finished his laborious course,
"we used to rejoyce over him with praise and gladness."
there is something like this in the Consolation of
Crantor: for he says one Terinaeus Elysius, being —
grievously affected with the death of his Son, came to a
Diviner, and asked him what was the cause of such a —
calamity; he had given him in so many tablets three
verses to this Effect. "Men wander in life with ignorant
"minds. Enthynous, by the power of the fates, has possessed
"himself of Death. thus it was better for you and him
"to amek his exit." by these and such other Authors. they
confirm the Judgment which the Gods had shewn —
by facts. Alcidamas too a Rhetorician of the first —
rank among the ancients wrote a book in praise of
death; the benefit of which he would insinuate by ——
enumerating the many Evils incident to human life: who,
tho' he had not the Advantage of those proofs which have
been so exquisitely extracted by Philosophers, yet was
by no means wanting in the Art of Rhetorick. but famous
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1761-01-27 |
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Tusculan Questions |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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