Note 25 — THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY PART II.

O’er his dead son the gallant ORMOND sigh’d. Ormond bore the loss with patience and dignity: though he ever retained a pleasing, however melancholy, sense of the signal merit of Ossory. “I would not exchange my dead son,” said he, “for any living son in Christendom.” HUME, vi. 340. The same sentiment is inscribed on Miss Dolman’s urn at the Leasowes. Heu, quanto minus est cum reliquis versari, quam tui meminisse!