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4741. LIFE, Declining.—

I endeavor to
beguile the wearisomeness of declining life by
the delights of classical reading and of
mathematical truths, and by the consolations
of a sound philosophy, equally indifferent to
hope and fear.—
To W. Short. Washington ed. vii, 140. Ford ed., x, 145.
(M. 1819)