Virginibus Puerisque

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Excerpt from Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four PartsIt is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it likeamiser. Every heart that has beat (stron and cheerfull has left a ho eful impulse ehind it in t e world, and ettered the tradition of mankind. And even if death catch pe0p1e, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous founda tions, ¿ushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful langua e, they should be at once tripped up an silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? And does not life 0 down with a better grace, foamin in ull body over a precipice, than misera ly stra gling to an end m sandy deltas? Deat has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a - tip-toe on the highest oint of being, he passes at a bound on to t e other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hard] done blowrn when, trailing with him c ouds of glory, t. 15 happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land - Air Triplex.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.