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* Tis an inevitable chance—the firft fiatute in , 
« Magna Charta—it is an everlafting act of Par- 
+ liament, my dear brother—all muft die.”’* 
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+ ’Tis an inevitable chance, the firlt Ratute in Magna 
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** When Tully was bereft of his dear daughter 
Tullia, at firft he laid it to his heart—he liftened 
to the voice of Nature, and modulated his own 
unto it, &c.—-But as foon as he began to look 
into the ftores of Philofophy, and confider how | 
many excellent things might be faid upon the 
occafion—nobody upon earth can conceive, fays 
the great oratory how joyful, how happy it made 
me.”|] 
‘ Till was much grieved for his daughter Tulliola’s 
death at firft, until fuch time that he had confirmed his 
mind with fome philofophical precepts, then he began to 
triumph over fortune and grief, and for her reception into 
heaven to be much more joyed than before he was troubled 
for her lofs.”$ 
Sterne is uncharitable here to poor Cicero.— 
** Kingdoms and provinces, and towns and cities, 
“have they not their periods?” Where is Troy, 
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* Triftram Shandy, Vol sth. Chap. 9. 
+ Anat, of Melancholy, p. 215. 
|| Sterne. 
{ Burton, 
