Note 88 — CANTO III. MANIFESTO.
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That since “to die is but to sleep.”
“Long o’er the wrecks of lovely life they weep; Then pleased reflect, to die is but to sleep.” Temple of Nature, Canto ii.
I suspect that my intimate friend and correspondent Buonaparte, is a full convert to Dr Darwin’s doctrine of death and its consequences. For, when he declared to lord Whitworth his determination to invade England, although there were a hundred chances to one in favor of his going to the bottom, he was undoubtedly calculating on a comfortable nap after the fatigues of government.