JOHN SWAMMERDAM. 135 



that piety which he evinced will feel disposed to ad- 

 mit. Although he lived in misery, the close of his 

 life was perhaps more enviable than that of many 

 who have gone smiling to their final rest ; and it is 

 well for those who, before the period arrives when as 

 the tree falls so it must lie, can like him become 

 truly sensible of the vanity of all earthly pur- 

 suits, even although after death they should be 

 pointed out as the victims of a distempered ima- 

 gination. 



