flictingcircumstances, and thus be adapted to afford inall a silent but not unfelt sympathy. —Idleness is the mother of mischief; themoment a horse has done eating his oats, heturns to and gnaws down his manger. Substi-tute labor for oats, and virtue for manger, andwhat is true of horses is equally… … On the death of a king in Egypt, threescore and ten days was the period that inter-vened from his departure to the termination ofthe embalming operations, the earlier and moreimportant of which, exclusive of the soakingin natron, occupied forty days. The coffin, orwooden case, in which the embalmed…
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