OLD AGE. !
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Ts'The nightingale sings the sweetest in the
evening; the We oods assume their gayest and
most cheerful aspect in the autumn ofsthe
year,, the sun isrthe brightest whenit is
about to disappear beneath the horizon; it
cannot, therefore, be contrary to the ana
logy Of nature, that the sunset Of life should
be even more cheerful and Joyous than its
meridian Every body believes sensbility
to be an evil, because he has heard it a
thousand times, but how many have found
that 'the fear of ill exceeds the i'll we fear,'
and that the enjoymentof life suffers no di-
minution from the increase of years. u8 hi
When Fontenelle, in extreme old age,
was asked what Inconvenience he expert
enced, he replied: ......s ..,.... ...-....
u "None, but that Of existence" ,....
Confessing that he had no real subject of
complaint, he must needs urge fictitious
one, by taking It for granted that great age
must ofitself be great evil. What would
Methuselah have said TO these grumblng
boy-greybeards. I, -ttti aGs eaf ss58