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Tribulation, Immortality, the Multitude: what remedy of composure do these words bring for their own great disquiet. Without the remoteness of the Latinity the thought would come too close and shake too cruelly.
In order to the sane endurance of the intimate trouble of the soul an aloofness of language is needful. Johnson feared death. Did his noble