. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . h. This was on the 4th February morning following he died. He had been gone an hour when I reachedthe house. He lay calm and still, an expression of exquisite tendernesssubduing his rugged features into almost feminine beauty. I have seensomething like it in Catholic pictures of dead saints, but never before or sinceon any human countenance. Carlyle himself wrote: For a divinity doth shape our ends, rough-hew them how we may. Often in my life I have been brought
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . h. This was on the 4th February morning following he died. He had been gone an hour when I reachedthe house. He lay calm and still, an expression of exquisite tendernesssubduing his rugged features into almost feminine beauty. I have seensomething like it in Catholic pictures of dead saints, but never before or sinceon any human countenance. Carlyle himself wrote: For a divinity doth shape our ends, rough-hew them how we may. Often in my life I have been brought to think ofthis, as probably every considering person has: and looking before and afterhave felt, though reluctant enough to believe in the importance or signi-ficance of so infinitesimally small an atom as oneself, that the doctrine ofa special Providence is in some sort natural to man. All piety points thatway, all logic points the other; one has in ones darkness and limitation atrembling faith, and can at least say Wir heissen euch hoffen, if it be thewill of the Highest. Authorities: James Anthony Froudc; Uean No. 94 The Death of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of West-minster. Born 13th December 1815. Died i8thJuly 1881. THE Deans condition on Thursday, 14th July 1881, showed thatsome serious illness was impending, and on Friday morning observed that an attack of erysipelas of the face had erysipelas spread rapidly over the face, eyelids, and head, extendingdown the neck as far as the chest and the right shoulder. The condition wasalarming, but Dean Stanley himself still hoped that he might be well enoughto conduct the marriage service of his friend Mr. Montgomery on the Sunday 17th July he grew much worse. The erysipelas had attackedhis throat with such severity that his utterance was feeble and indistinct. Ialways wished, he said, to die at Westminster. The end has come in theway that I most desired that it should come. Again
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