As for me, I thought it one of the sharpest strokes I had met with,
for I both loved the child very well and had conceived great hopes
of general good from him; and it pierced me the deeper to think how
deeply it would pierce his afflicted parents.
Sorrow for this disaster was my companion in this journey, and I
travelled the roads under great exercise of mind, revolving in my
thoughts the manifold accidents which the life of man was attended
with and subject to, and the great uncertainty of all human things;
I could find no centre, no firm basis, for the mind of man to fix
upon but the divine power and will of the Almighty. This
consideration wrought in my spirit a sort of contempt of what
supposed happiness or pleasure this world, or the things that are in
and of it, can of themselves yield, and raised my contemplation
higher; which, as it ripened and came to some degree of digestion, I
breathed forth in mournful accents thus:-
SOLITARY THOUGHTS ON THE UNCERTAINTY OF HUMAN THINGS.
OCCASIONED BY THE SUDDEN LOSS OF A HOPEFUL YOUTH.
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