The Roman History From the Foundation of Rome to the Battle of Actium : That Is, to the End of the Commonwealth 9
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They found him fwimming in his blood, and his bowels fallen out at the aperture of the wound.
However, he was ftill alive, and could yet fee. The Surgeon came, and feeing the inteftines were not wounded, was for replacing them and fewing up the wound. But when Cato had recovered his fenfes, and underftood their intention to preferve his life, he pufhed the Surgeon from him, and with a fiercenefs, the very relation of which makes one tremble, tore out his bowels and expired.
Such was Cato's deat...h : a death celebrated by all antiquity -, but which the principles of our holy relir gion muft condemn, and which reafon itfelf cannot approve. I do not here intend to expatiate on thofe principles, which inconteftably prove fuicide to be criminal : but Ihall confine myfelf to what is proper to my fubjecl ; and only defire that my readers, in recollefting the Ihort obfervations I have interfperfed* in this narration, would be plealed to add one fingk refledion more, arifing from the fadts themfelves^ Which is, that it is evident, that pride was the motiwa of Cato*s defperate refolucion, and that, by the 2.?iM»^ tance of that vice only, he furmounted the fear of death, which he looked upon as a weaknefs.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They found him fwimming in his blood, and his bowels fallen out at the aperture of the wound.
However, he was ftill alive, and could yet fee. The Surgeon came, and feeing the inteftines were not wounded, was for replacing them and fewing up the wound. But when Cato had recovered his fenfes, and underftood their intention to preferve his life, he pufhed the Surgeon from him, and with a fiercenefs, the very relation of which makes one tremble, tore out his bowels and expired.
Such was Cato's deat...h : a death celebrated by all antiquity -, but which the principles of our holy relir gion muft condemn, and which reafon itfelf cannot approve. I do not here intend to expatiate on thofe principles, which inconteftably prove fuicide to be criminal : but Ihall confine myfelf to what is proper to my fubjecl ; and only defire that my readers, in recollefting the Ihort obfervations I have interfperfed* in this narration, would be plealed to add one fingk refledion more, arifing from the fadts themfelves^ Which is, that it is evident, that pride was the motiwa of Cato*s defperate refolucion, and that, by the 2.?iM»^ tance of that vice only, he furmounted the fear of death, which he looked upon as a weaknefs.
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