"Forty-sixth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for his family. But his career was now rapidly drawing to a close. He had been but a few months relieved from his prison, when his constitution sank under an attack of typhus, and he died in his forty-sixth year, at an age which in other men is scarcely more than the commencement of their maturity—is actually the most vigorous period of all their powers; and in an undecayed frame gives the securest promise of longevity. With all his eccentricities, and he had many, he had ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various |
