...law, The rich, the poor, the great, the small, Are levell'd : death confounds them all. Gay, Fables. He taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high The price for knowledge) taught us how to die. Tickell. As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the...

...for you that you may see how a Christian can die !" he shortly after expired : "There taught us bow to live, and— oh, too high The price of knowledge ! — taught us how to die." The yonng Earl himself died in 1721. About the year 1762, the estate was sold to Henry Fox, the first...

...Christian can die.' To this Tickell refers in his excellent ' Elegy,' thus :— Joseph Addison. 123 ' He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die. ' Dr. Johnson speaks of it as to the lasting praise of this poet. hat by the appreciative character...

...show'd us the wise course to steer, A candid censor, and a friend sincere ; He taught us how to I've ; and (Oh ! too high The price of knowledge) taught us how to die. TICKELL, on the Death of JJddison, Sure the last end Of the good man*is peace ! — how calm his exit...

...have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die." To this his friend Tickell alludes — " He taught us how to live and — oh, too high , The price for knowledge ! — taught us how to die," The only failing imputed to this great man is occasional...

...song ; There patient, showed us the wise course to steer, A candid censor and a friend severe ; There taught us how to live ; and (oh ! too high, The price of knowledge) taught us how to die. — Tfckell. The great satirist who alone knew how to use ridicule wkhout abusing it, who without inflicting...

...homily, that nothing but religion would give him comfort on the death-bed. It might be said, — " He taught us how to live, and (oh, too high The price for knowledge ! ) taught us how to die." On the occasion of his centenary, when the memory of Walter...

...occurred on Sunday, December 3, 1815. •One of his contemporaries has well exclaimed with the poet:— " He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge ! taught us how to die." The following notice of Archbishop Carroll's character, in the American Quarterly Review, is from the...

...near. " Not a little of this enlargement was enjoyed by your aged minister during his last illness— ' He taught us how to live ; and oh ! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die.' For eleven months he may be said to have been a-dying; for, while he would not unwillingly have remained...

...he, " and see how a Christian can die." It suggested the lines in the touching eulogy of Tickell: " He taught us how to live, and, oh, too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die." There are hymns which, in consequence of the benefits conferred by them upon some servant of the Lord...