418 FEAR' OF DEATH. his purposes shall be broken off and all his thoughts perish. The man ofpleasure, alas ! what shall we say for him ? He is sunk to the lowest step of degradation in the moral scale ; he has not even human supports ; he has robbed himself even of the ordi- nary consolations resorted to by ordinary men. He has no stay on which to lay hold, no twig at which to catch, no pre- tence by which to flatter himself into a false peace ; no recollection of past usefulness : he has neither served his country, nor benefited society - what shall we say for him ? If hepray not for himself, we must pray for him - with God all things are possible. The Statesman, indefatigable in the public service, distinguished for integrity, but neglecting the offices of Christianity; whose lofty character power had not warped, nor cupidity debased, but whose religious principles, though they had never been renounced, had not been
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