Benevolence.
Delicacy of Feeling.
The best parts of human qualities are the tenderness and delicacy of feeling in little matters, the desire to soothe and please others, the minutiæ of the social virtues. Some ridicule these feminine attributes, which are left out of many men’s natures: but I have known the brave, the intellectual, the eloquent possess these gentle qualities; the braggart, the weak, never! Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
On a Tablet in the South Aisle of St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster.
Inscription.
Within the walls of this Church was deposited the body of the great Sir Walter Raleigh Kt. on the day he was beheaded in the old Palace yard Westminster Oct. 18th. 1618.
Reader, should you reflect on his errors, remember his many virtues, and that he was a mortal.