. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . , andthen in a little moment after he gave up the ghost. He was buried in theSwedish church at Ratcliffe Highway. His remains were later exhumed andtaken to Sweden. He was about five feet nine inches in height; rather thin, and of a dark 107 io8 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH complexion. His eyes of a brownish gray. His appearance was dignified andvenerable. He wore a full-bottomed wig, with lace ruffles at his wrists, andcarried a gold-headed cane. His habits were very frugal
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . , andthen in a little moment after he gave up the ghost. He was buried in theSwedish church at Ratcliffe Highway. His remains were later exhumed andtaken to Sweden. He was about five feet nine inches in height; rather thin, and of a dark 107 io8 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH complexion. His eyes of a brownish gray. His appearance was dignified andvenerable. He wore a full-bottomed wig, with lace ruffles at his wrists, andcarried a gold-headed cane. His habits were very frugal and he abstainedfrom animal food. The writings of Swedenborg, which fill sixty octavos offive hundred pages each, show no symptoms of mental aberration; the last,finished a few months before his death, being singularly clear, logical, andfree from undue enthusiasm. He was always regarded as a pious and learnedman ; he was never married; and his habits and mode of life were remarkablefor their simplicity. Authorities: Lives by J. G. Wilkinson and W. White; Chamberss Biographical Dic-tionary; and Biographic Louis XV. )^ No. 51 The Death of Louis XV of France. Born loth May 1774. IT is the fourth evening of May, year of Grace 1774. Such a whispering inthe CEil de Boeuf! Is he dying then? Louis sends for his Abbe Moudonin the course of next night; is confessed by him, some say for the spaceof seventeen minutes, and demands the sacraments of his own accord. Nay,already in the afternoon, behold, is not this your Sorceress Dubarry, with thehandkerchief at her eyes, mounting into dAiguillons chariot? rolling offin his Duchesss consolatory arms. She is gone, and her place knows herno more. Vanish, false Sorceress, into space! Thou unclean, yet unmalignantnot unpitiable thing. Louis, meanwhile, is in considerable impatience forhis sacraments, sends more than once to the window to see whether theyare not coming. Towards six in the morning they arrive. Cardinal Gran
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