Young, N. viii.
See a recent novel by Frederick Souillet, entitled Si Jeunesse savait, Si Vieillesse pouvait.
Life and Death (Vol. ix., p. 481.).—The following is on a monument at Lowestoft, co. Suffolk, to the memory of John, son of John and Anne Wilde, who died February 9, 1714, aged five years and six months:
"Quem Dii amant moritur Juvenis."
Sigma.
The following may be added to the parallel passages collected by Eirionnach. Chateaubriand says, in his Memoirs, that the greatest misfortune which can happen to a man is to be born, and the next greatest is to have a child. As Chateaubriand had no children, the most natural comment on the last branch of his remark is "sour grapes."
Uneda.
Philadelphia.