Ultima semper Expectanda dies homini: dicique beatus Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet. OVID. Met. Lib. iii. 135.   But no frail …

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Which of mortal men was to be accounted nearest to the gods in happiness — that man who is in want of the fewest things.”

The present age, if we consider chiefly the state of our own country, may be styled, with great propriety, The Age of Authors.