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    see others , in a continual bustle . Nevertheless , man was not meant to be a pig , with his nose never out of his own sty . He should make some interest with the year , that when it comes to die , his conscience may not be left without a legacy of satisfactory recollection . Some purpose of benefit to others ,

    political or philanthropic , may surely be contemplated by almost every individual : and happy the year that witnesses its accomplishment . Happy even is that which brings him to his grave , in the honourable pursuit of an honourable purpose . How well does that dear garrulous old Frenchman , Montaigne , discourse on this point .

    " To Death do I submit the trial of the fruit of my studies . It will then appear whether my Discourses came only from my Mouth , or from my Heart . I have known many who by their death , have given a bad or a good reputation to their whole lives . Scipio , the father-in-law of Pom pet / , by dying well , expunged the ill opinion which had till then

    been conceived of him . Epaminondas being interrogated which of the three men he had in greatest esteem , Chabrias , Iphicrates , or himself , We must all die , said he , before that question can be resolved . It would really be doing vast injustice to that personage to scan him without considering bow <* reat and honourable was his end . The

    Almighty has ordered every thing as it best pleased him ; but in my time three of the most execrable persons that I ever knew , most abominably vicious , and the most infamous to boot , died regular deaths , and in all circumstances composed , even to perfection . There are some deaths that are grave and happy . I have seen the thread of a person ' s life cut in

    his progress to wonderful advancements , and in the prime of his years , who made so glorious an exit , that in my opinion , his ambitious and courageous projects had nothing so sublime in them , as the manner in which he bore their interruption ; and he arrived without completing his course , at the place he proposed , with more grandeur and glory , than he could desire or hope for ; anticipating by his fall , the fame and power

    to which he aspired in his career . For the judgment I form of another man ' s life , I always observe how he behaves at the end of it ; and the chief study of my own is , that my latter end may be decent , culm , and silent /' Whether individuals live or die , however , one thing" is certain ; and it luckily depends not on any particular persons ,

    l ) iit on the great aggregate , the people , which is undying ; and that is the necessity , if the world is to have happy new years , of keeping out and keeping down the Tories . Very deplorable is it that any body of persons should obstinately plant themselves between humanity and its rights ; but if they will do so , they must he as gently as possible pushed out of the way . There will be warm work of it soon , nor has faction ever been

    so heady and desperate in this country as it is at present . The last struggle of a party for public plunder is yet to be made , and all lionest men should be prepared and alert . The next defeat will be final , and the high road be then open of national

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1836, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2653/page/9/