...Cato's* Soliloquy' on the Immortality of the Soul. — TRAGEDY OF CATO. 1. It must be so — Plato, f thou reasonest well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope,...points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. 2. Eternity ! — thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through...

...hope repose,) The bosom of his Father and his God. CATO'S SOLILOQUY ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. IT must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ! —...stirs within us : Tis Heaven itself that points out — a hereafter, And intimates — Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing — dreadful thought...

...Shakspeare. LESSON II. CATO ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! Else, whence this pleasing hope, this fond...points out an hereafter, And intimates Eternity to man. Eternity ! — thou pleasing — dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through...

...pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, this inward horror, Of falling into nought! Why shrinks...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new...

...actions the most beneficent, and heroic, on what principle is it to be accounted for? " Whence springs this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing...soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction?" Whence proceeds the want we feel amidst the variety of objects which surround us? Whence arises the...

...expressed this view of the origin of the conviction : — " It must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man, Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new...

...longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." CATO, Actv. And while this desire lingers in the human soul, as it always will, man cannot forget that...

...longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles...out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." — Addison's Cato. Without pretending to have given more than a brief synopsis of the argument from...

...given by Addison. The following is the well-known soliloquy which he puts into the mouth of Cato : " It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else...out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man." * Now admitting for the present the facts here insinuated, let us briefly examine the inference. The...

...will sufficiently elucidate the force and beauty of Emphasis. " It must be so — Plato thou reason'st well — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond...destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heav'n itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity ! thou pleasing,...