Footnotes
[313:2] He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.—Montaigne: Essays, book i. chap. ix.
I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live; and I will show you in a very short time how to die.—Sandys: Anglorum Speculum, p. 903.
Teach him how to live,
And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.
Porteus: Death, line 316.
He taught them how to live and how to die.—Somerville: In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore.
SAMUEL MADDEN. 1687-1765.
Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just,
Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust,—
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.
There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.
Boulter's Monument.
Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.[314:1]
Boulter's Monument.