. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . after a slight struggle he sank heavily on his left the ground, were the last words he spoke. It was now a little overten minutes past six oclock. His two daughters came that night, having beentelegraphed for. His eldest son arrived early next morning, and was joinedin the evening (too late) by his younger son from Cambridge. All possiblemedical aid had been summoned. The surgeon of the neighbourhood wasthere from the first, and a physician from London was also in
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . after a slight struggle he sank heavily on his left the ground, were the last words he spoke. It was now a little overten minutes past six oclock. His two daughters came that night, having beentelegraphed for. His eldest son arrived early next morning, and was joinedin the evening (too late) by his younger son from Cambridge. All possiblemedical aid had been summoned. The surgeon of the neighbourhood wasthere from the first, and a physician from London was also in attendance,but all human help was unavailing. There was effusion on the brain, andthough stertorous breathing continued all night and until ten minutes pastsix oclock on the evening of Thursday the gth June, there was never a gleamof hope during the twenty-four hours which elapsed before his death. Helived four months beyond his fifty-eighth year. His remains were interredin Westminster Abbey, but, in accordance with his injunctions, in as privateand unostentatious a manner as possible. Authority: Forstcrs Life. 201. Thomas ( :. i> Janus MiX. IIhistlcf. No. 93The Death of Thomas Carlyle. Born 1795. Died 1881. IN his last years Thomas Carlyle became conscious of failing strength;glad to rest upon a seat when he could find one, glad of an arm to leanon in walking. He knew that his end must be near, and it was seldomlong out of his mind; but he was not conscious of any failure of intellectualpower, nor was there to the last any essential failure. He forgot names andplaces, as old men often do, but recollected everything that was worth re-membering. In his intellect nothing pointed to an end, and the experiencethat the mind did not necessarily decay with the body, confirmed his con-viction that it was not a function of the body, that it had another origin, andmight have another destination. When he spoke of the future and its un-certainties, he fell back invariably on the
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