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Description Of Pompey's Pillar
whole company went up , and drank their punch amid the shouts of the astonished multitude . To the eye below , the capital " of the pillar does not appear capable of holding more than one man upon it but our seamen found it could contain no less than eight persons very conveniently . It is astonishing that no accident befel these mad in situation so elevatedthat would have turned a
-caps , a , landman giddy in his sober senses . The only detriment which the pillar received , wasthe loss of the volute before mentioned ; which came down with a thundering sound , and was carried to England by one of the captains , as a present to a lady who commissioned him for a piece of the pillar . The discovery which they made , ampl y for this mischiefas without their evidence the
compensated ; , world would not have known at this hour , that there was originall y a statue on this pillar , one foot and ancle of which are still remaining . The statue was , probably , of Pornpey himself ; and must have been of a gigantic size , to have appeared at a man ' s proportion at so great an height .
On Epitaphs.
ON EPITAPHS .
Til E extensive limits of the vanity of man , terminate in an epitaph . It is , however , often a stronger testimonial of the pride of the living , than of the virtues of the dead It should hereby seem that falshoodis so inseparably blended with humanity , that it follows them even to the tomb , and triumphs still over thenashes The treat expence that frequently accompanies this moin the design of giving credit
numental flattery , has often it ' s source to imposture ; and the elogium graven on marble , m honour of the deceased , is most frequently a portrait which it were to be wished he . had resembled , rather , than a faithful likeness of what he really was . ; Epitaphs may be stiled the humbugs of the dead , to which , indeed , reader gives credit . If the soul after this
a judicious never any life is in a state of happiness , it does not require the ostentatious evidence of an epitaph ; and if it be not in this state of beatitude , the rottino- body does not merit the fallacious plaudit . I hose , however , who pay this tribute to their departed friends , either throuo-h gratitude or esteem , are more excusable than those who in their fifetime iate a ital sum toornament a carcass with
- approp cap . an expensive monument , and who have the effrontery to write their own elogium whilst living , that they may impose falsehood on the world , when incapable of speaking . .,,, ' , , , I should not , however , contemn this custom , if those who thought proper to pen their own epitaphs , acquitted themselves as well as a certain Roman , whose tomb was found with the following imaw & ea :
Non nomen , non quo genitus , non wide , quid e ghA , /^ X \ Multus in eternum sum cinis , ossa , nihil , / £ ¦ > '' " " "Jo « "A Non sum , necfueram genitus , tamenenihilo smi ° 0 ^ fr Mito , nee exprobres singula , talis eris . L \ U 8 , o , In .
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Description Of Pompey's Pillar
whole company went up , and drank their punch amid the shouts of the astonished multitude . To the eye below , the capital " of the pillar does not appear capable of holding more than one man upon it but our seamen found it could contain no less than eight persons very conveniently . It is astonishing that no accident befel these mad in situation so elevatedthat would have turned a
-caps , a , landman giddy in his sober senses . The only detriment which the pillar received , wasthe loss of the volute before mentioned ; which came down with a thundering sound , and was carried to England by one of the captains , as a present to a lady who commissioned him for a piece of the pillar . The discovery which they made , ampl y for this mischiefas without their evidence the
compensated ; , world would not have known at this hour , that there was originall y a statue on this pillar , one foot and ancle of which are still remaining . The statue was , probably , of Pornpey himself ; and must have been of a gigantic size , to have appeared at a man ' s proportion at so great an height .
On Epitaphs.
ON EPITAPHS .
Til E extensive limits of the vanity of man , terminate in an epitaph . It is , however , often a stronger testimonial of the pride of the living , than of the virtues of the dead It should hereby seem that falshoodis so inseparably blended with humanity , that it follows them even to the tomb , and triumphs still over thenashes The treat expence that frequently accompanies this moin the design of giving credit
numental flattery , has often it ' s source to imposture ; and the elogium graven on marble , m honour of the deceased , is most frequently a portrait which it were to be wished he . had resembled , rather , than a faithful likeness of what he really was . ; Epitaphs may be stiled the humbugs of the dead , to which , indeed , reader gives credit . If the soul after this
a judicious never any life is in a state of happiness , it does not require the ostentatious evidence of an epitaph ; and if it be not in this state of beatitude , the rottino- body does not merit the fallacious plaudit . I hose , however , who pay this tribute to their departed friends , either throuo-h gratitude or esteem , are more excusable than those who in their fifetime iate a ital sum toornament a carcass with
- approp cap . an expensive monument , and who have the effrontery to write their own elogium whilst living , that they may impose falsehood on the world , when incapable of speaking . .,,, ' , , , I should not , however , contemn this custom , if those who thought proper to pen their own epitaphs , acquitted themselves as well as a certain Roman , whose tomb was found with the following imaw & ea :
Non nomen , non quo genitus , non wide , quid e ghA , /^ X \ Multus in eternum sum cinis , ossa , nihil , / £ ¦ > '' " " "Jo « "A Non sum , necfueram genitus , tamenenihilo smi ° 0 ^ fr Mito , nee exprobres singula , talis eris . L \ U 8 , o , In .