. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . tely like thunder? It is the rush of the wholeCourt, rushing as in wager to salute the new sovereigns. Hail to yourMajesties! The Dauphin and Dauphiness are King and Queen. Over-powered with many emotions, they two fall on their knees together, and, 109 P no A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH with streaming tears, exclaim: O God, guide us, protect us; we are tooyoung to reign. But thus has the Horologe of Time struck, and an old Era passed Louis that was lies forsaken, a m
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . tely like thunder? It is the rush of the wholeCourt, rushing as in wager to salute the new sovereigns. Hail to yourMajesties! The Dauphin and Dauphiness are King and Queen. Over-powered with many emotions, they two fall on their knees together, and, 109 P no A BOOK OF LIFE AND DEATH with streaming tears, exclaim: O God, guide us, protect us; we are tooyoung to reign. But thus has the Horologe of Time struck, and an old Era passed Louis that was lies forsaken, a mass of abhorred clay; abandoned tosome poor persons and priests of the Chapelle Ardente, who make haste toput him in two lead coffins, pouring in abundant spirits of wine. The newLouis, with his Court, is rolling towards Choisy, through the summer after-noon; the royal tears still flow, but a word mispronounced by MonseigneurdArtois sets them all laughing, and they weep no more. Light mortals, how ye walk your light life-minuet, over bottomlessabysses, divided from you by a film. Authority: Carlyles French Rajah and his Wife. No. 52 The Death of Maharajah Nanda Kumar (Nuncomar).Temp. Warren Hastings, 1775. THE following is the account of the execution written by AlexanderMackrabie, the sheriff whose distasteful duty it was to see it carriedout: Hearing that some persons had supposed Maharajah Nuncomar wouldmake an address to the people at his execution, I have committed to writingthe following minutes of what passed both on that occasion, and also uponmy paying him a visit in prison the preceding evening, while both are freshin my remembrance. Friday evening, 4th August. Upon my entering hisapartments in the jail, he arose and saluted me in his usual manner. Afterwe were both seated, he spoke with great ease and such seeming unconcern,that I really doubted whether he was sensible of his approaching fate. Itherefore bid the interpreter inform him that I w
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