. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . g and 49 50 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH the Lord shall prosper all your undertakings. Such were the last words ofthe dying monarch to his son. On the 2ist of September, about two hoursafter midnight, the Emperor, who had remained long without speaking,exclaimed Now it is time! The holy taper was placed lighted in his righthand as he sat up leaning on the shoulder of his faithful servant his left he endeavoured to clasp a silver crucifix. Charles fixed hisgaze lo
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . g and 49 50 A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH the Lord shall prosper all your undertakings. Such were the last words ofthe dying monarch to his son. On the 2ist of September, about two hoursafter midnight, the Emperor, who had remained long without speaking,exclaimed Now it is time! The holy taper was placed lighted in his righthand as he sat up leaning on the shoulder of his faithful servant his left he endeavoured to clasp a silver crucifix. Charles fixed hisgaze long and earnestly on the sacred symbol which had comforted theEmpress, his wife, in her dying hour. To him it was the memento of earthlylove as well as of heavenly. The archbishop was repeating the psalm Deprofundis Out of the depths I cry unto thee O Lord! when the dying man,making a feeble effort to embrace the crucifix, exclaimed in tones so audibleas to be heard in the adjoining room, Ay, Jesus! and sinking back on thepillow, expired without a struggle. Authority: Prescotts History of the Reign of Phihp the No. 2 2 The Death of Jean Calvin (Cauvin). Born at Noyon inPicardy, France, on the loth July 1509. Died atGeneva 27th May 1564. CALVIN was sober and austere in his manners, but of a sad andinflexible character. His dominating passion was the love of power,and the desire to impose his opinions upon others. I have nogreat difficulty, he wrote to a friend, in combating my vices, although theyare numberless. What I find hardest is to subdue my impatience, and thatferocious beast I have not yet been able to conquer. He was pastor of theChurch of Geneva and sought no higher title. His annual salary was onehundred and fifty francs, with a certain quantity of wheat and wine; morethan this he would never receive. When he died he was barely fifty-five yearsof age. Of a feeble constitution, he was tormented all his life by variousmaladies. Headache and fever were h
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