. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . the dying man. He met his end calmlyand with confidence. The chamber in which he lay was thronged with people,for in those days a great man was not allowed to die in peace and privacy. His assurance appals me, said a Bishop, as he noted the perfect confidenceand calmness with which the Cardinal approached death. He lingered a daylonger. Feeling his end approaching he turned to his niece, the DuchessedAiguillon, whom he had loved best in the world, and said: I beg you tore
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . the dying man. He met his end calmlyand with confidence. The chamber in which he lay was thronged with people,for in those days a great man was not allowed to die in peace and privacy. His assurance appals me, said a Bishop, as he noted the perfect confidenceand calmness with which the Cardinal approached death. He lingered a daylonger. Feeling his end approaching he turned to his niece, the DuchessedAiguillon, whom he had loved best in the world, and said: I beg you toretire. Do not allow yourself to suffer the pain of seeing me die. She leftthe room accordingly, and in a few minutes he was no more. He died on4th December 1642, in the fifty-eighth year of his age, in the great palace he 77 L 78 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH had built for himself, and surrounded by the power and splendour for whichhe had toiled so long and so assiduously. Save to his family and his dependentshis death caused no sorrow. The Iron Cardinal was no more. Authorities: Hanotaux; J. B. Perkins; Michelet; R. Ei)\VAK]>, LoKT) :-:rt, of Ciikriury. Oi\ 16-8. From an cnj^rnzing hy li. I foil of the original in the cotUxtioii oj the Rt. Honble. Lord Iiscouut Clive. No. 36 The Death of Edward Herbert, Lord Herbert ofCherbury. Born 1582. Died 1648. LORD HERBERT OF CHERBURY was the opponent of Hobbes,protesting against the materialism of his day. He taught the existencein men of a faculty above sense and human understanding, to whichthey are subordinate and from which all our knowledge is derived. He boldlyasserted the supremacy in all things of this spiritual faculty, especially itsright and capacity to judge of all claims to revelation. John Aubrey, in hisLives of Eminent Men, thus describes the death of Lord Herbert ofCherbury:— Lord Primate Usher of Ireland was sent for by Lord Herbert when onhis death-bed, as he would have received the Sacrament: he said indif
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