REFLEXION.

This Moral does not lye so square, as to bear any great Weight upon’t.

’Tis true, that our Fame and Memory shall out-live our Bodies; and that

in that sense a Man may be said to be Miserable after his Death; even

in a Pagan way of Understanding it, as well as with a Regard to the

Immortality of the Soul in a Christian Application. It holds forth to us

the Pertinacy of Ill Fortune, in Pursuing some People into their very

Graves: But they that are born to a Fatality of Endless Misfortunes, must

submit to go thorough with them.

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