. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . that which was to him all the Law and theProphets. His death was stern and lonely, and he too was a man of deepaffections, and of more sensibility than most other men; but so his whole lifehad been stern and lonely, such was the severe law laid upon him. Herefollows the last letter he ever wrote: To the Duchess Dowager of Brunswick, dated Sans Souci, loth August1786. My adorable Sister, The Hanover Doctor has wished to make himself FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA 129 important wi
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . that which was to him all the Law and theProphets. His death was stern and lonely, and he too was a man of deepaffections, and of more sensibility than most other men; but so his whole lifehad been stern and lonely, such was the severe law laid upon him. Herefollows the last letter he ever wrote: To the Duchess Dowager of Brunswick, dated Sans Souci, loth August1786. My adorable Sister, The Hanover Doctor has wished to make himself FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA 129 important with you, my good sister, but the truth is he has been of no use tome. The old must give place to the young that each generation may findroom clear for it; and Life, if we examine strictly what its course is, consistsin seeing ones fellow creatures die and be born. In the meanwhile I have feltmyself a little easier for the last day or two. My heart remains inviolablyattached to you, my good Sister. With the highest consideration, I am yourfaithful Brother and Servant, Frihdrich. Authority: Carlyles Frederick the John , l-toni an cngraTnng by R. Pa^e. No. 60 The Death of John Wesley. Born 1703. Died 2nd March1791, aged eighty-seven years and nine months. UPON his eighty-sixth birthday Wesley wrote as follows: I nowfind I grow old. My sight is decayed so that I cannot read smallprint unless in a strong light. My strength is diminished so that Iwalk much slower than I did some years since. My memory of names, whetherof persons or places, is so bad that I have to stop a little to recollect I should be afraid of is, if I took thought for the morrow, that my bodyshould weigh down my mind, and create either stubbornness by the decreaseof my understanding or peevishness by the increase of bodily infirmities, butThou shalt answer for me, O Lord my God. His strength diminished somuch, that he found it difficult to preach more than twice a day, and for manywee
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