Athenians. Niocles

, his Friend, under the same Sentence, desired he might drink the Potion before him:

Phocion

said, because he never had denied him any thing he would not even this, the most difficult Request he had ever made.

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were very noble and great, and the Reflections of those Sublime Spirits had made Death to them what it is really intended to be by the Author of Nature, a Relief from a various Being ever subject to Sorrows and Difficulties.

Epaminondas

, the