Excerpt from Virginibus Puerisque: An Essay in Four Parts It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it likeamiser. Every heart that has beat (stron and cheerfull has left a ho eful impulse ehind it in t e world, and ettered the tradition of mankind. And even if death catch pe0p1e, like an open pitfall, and in mid-career, laying out vast projects, and planning monstrous founda tions, flushed with hope, and their mouths full of boastful langua e, they should be at once tripped up an silenced: is there not something brave and spirited in such a termination? And does not life 0 down with a better grace, foamin in ull body over a precipice, than misera ly stra gling to an end m sandy deltas? Deat has not been suffered to take so much as an illusion from his heart. In the hot-fit of life, a - tip-toe on the highest oint of being, he passes at a bound on to t e other side. The noise of the mallet and chisel is scarcely quenched, the trumpets are hard] done blowrn when, trailing with him c ouds of glory, t. 15 happy-starred, full-blooded spirit shoots into the spiritual land - Air Triplex. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.