Note 146 — ESSAYS. (continued 2)
Reading edition
It is worth the reader’s while to turn to an abridged account of this curious table in Moor’s three Essays. Cebes himself, seated by the death-bed of Socrates, and learning to hope with something like confidence for the immortality of the soul, furnishes a beautiful moral picture, which even the disagreeable translation of the Phædo, by Taylor, cannot spoil.