I So STUDIES OF NATURE. 



** over Firginiuy which no fortune could compen- 

 " fate. You have loft her, and it is neither your 

 *' imprudence, nor your avarice, nor your falfe 

 '^ vvifdom, which occafioned that lofs, but God 

 ** himfelf, who has employed thepaffions of another, 

 " to deprive you of the objeâ: of your love; God, 

 " from whom you receive every thing, who fees 

 " what is proper for you, and whofe wifdom has 

 " not left you any place for that repentance, and 

 *' defpair, which ever follow in the train of thofe 

 *' evils, that \vc have brought upon ourfelves. 



** This is what you can fiy to yourfelf, under 



* the preflure of your affliftion : I have not me- 

 ^ rited it. Is it, then, the misfortunes of Firginiay 

 ' her end, her prefent condition, that you de- 

 •^ plore ? She has fubmitted to the decifion re- 

 ' ferved for birih, for beauty, and even for em- 

 ' pires themfelves. The life of Pvlan, with all it's 

 ' projeéts, rears itfelf like a little tower, to which 



* death applies the finiOiing ftroke. The mo^ 

 ' ment fhe was born, flie was condemned to die. 



* Happy, in having refigned her life before her 



* mother, before your's, and before youj-felf ; 



* that is, in not having fuffered many deaths be- 

 ' fore the final one. 



'* Death, my fon, is a bleffing to all Mankind. 

 *^ It is the evening of that reftlefs day which we 



" call 



