In my
conscience I believe it, there was some consanguinity between them, or
the reception would have proved more mutual. Between you and me, I
fear, were I to return to England, I might find myself a sad party in
such an interview. It is a sad reflection; but perhaps Providence may
wisely ordain such things, in order as men grow older, to wean them from
the objects of their worldly affections, that they may resign more
readily to the decree of fate. That good man, Dr. ARBUTHNOT, did not
seem to dread the approach of death on his own account, so much as from
the grievous affliction HE had reason to fear it would bring upon his
children and family.
LETTER XLI.
LYONS,
_The Harangue of the_ Emperor CLAUDIUS, _in the_ SENATE. _Copied from
the original Bronze plate in the Hotel de Ville, of_ Lyons.
FIRST TABLE.
MOERERUM . NOSTR ::::: SII ::::::::: Equidem . primam . omnium . illam
. cogitationem . hominum . quam . maxime . primam . occursuram . mihi .
provideo . deprecor . ne . quasi . novam . istam . rem .
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