Note 78 — VOL. XXVI., No. 153.—DECEMBER, 1877.
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“With a mind undisturbed take life’s good and life’s evil,
Temper grief from despair, temper joy from vain-glory;
For, through each mortal change, equal mind,
O my Dellius, befits mortal born.”
—Horat. Carm. ii. 3, Lord Lytton’s trans.