The book Past Meridian was written by author Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney Here you can read free online of Past Meridian book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Past Meridian a good or bad book?
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Of the latter, it was said by Mrs. Mary L. Ware, who visited her in 1823, " Though now eighty-two, she possesses her faculties in full perfection ; her manner is peculiarly gentle, her voice low and sweet, and she speaks of death with such firm hope, that I felt as if I were communing with a spiritual body. " Didactic and philosophical writers, seem often, in their calm researches, to have found refuge from that strife of thought which em bitters or shortens existence. Plato, wove for the men o...f Attica, his beau tiful and sublime theories, to the age of eighty-one ; and at eighty-five, John Evelyn closed his eyes at his fair estate in Wotton, which he had embellished both as a naturalist and an author, engraving on his marble mon ument, as the result of long experience, that " all is vanity which is not honest, and that there is no solid wisdom but in real piety. " The diligent and acute Bentley, reached four- 152 PAST MERIDIAN. score ; and Walker, seventy-five ; and Dr. Samuel Johnson, " whose name is a host, " attained the same age, having with charac teristic energy applied himself to the study of the Dutch language, but a short time before his death.
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