68: _ Caniments on Sterne. 
Again—“ Confider, brother Toby,—when we 
are, death is not, and when death is, we are 
not”—So Burton tranflates a paffage’ in Seneca: 
When we are, death is not; but when death is, then we 
are not.* ‘The original words are, quum nos fumus, 
mors non adefi ; cum vero mors adeft, tum nos non fumus. 
** For this reafon, continued my father, ’tis 
‘“* worthy to recollect, how little alteration in great 
“* men the approaches of death have made. Vef-- 
“« pafran died in a jeft -------- Galba with a 
“ fentence—Septimius Severus in a difpateh ; ‘Tibe- 
‘ rius in diffimulation, and Cefar Auguftus in a 
“ compliment.” ‘This conelufion of fo remarkable 
a Chapter is copied, omitting fome quotations, 
almoft verbatim, from Lord Verulam’s Effay on 
Death. . 
We muft have recourfe to Burton again, for part 
of the Triftra-Pedia. ‘*O bleffed health! cried 
*« my father, making an exclamation, as he turned 
~ * over the leaves to the next Chapter,—thou art 
“« above all gold and treafure; ‘tis thou who en- 
 Jargeft the foul,—and openeft all its powers to 
‘“« receive inftruction, and to relifh virtue. —He 
“¢ that has thee, has little more to wifh for ;—and 
* he that is fo wretched as to want thee,—wants 
“ every thing with thee. 
O bleffed health! fays Burton, thou art above all gold 
and 
*rPsete. 
+ Chap. 33, vol. 5. 
