"What is the loss of fortune to the loss of peace of mind ?" I continued.

"In short," said he, playfully, "you will make it out that there is no harm in a man's being plunged over-head-and-ears in a debt he cannot remove." "Much depends, I think, on how it was incurred, and what efforts are made to redeem it--at least, if the sufferer be a rightminded man." "I hope it does," he said, cheerfully and firmly .-- FRAGMENTS OF VOYAGES AND TRAVELS, 3rd series, pp.

308-9.] [Footnote 1518: "These battles," he wrote in his Diary, "have been the death of many a man, I think they will be mine."] [Footnote 1519: Scott's Diary, December 17th, 1827.] [Footnote 161: From Lovelace's lines to Lucusta [16Lucy Sacheverell], 'Going to the Wars.'] [Footnote 162: Amongst other great men of genius, Ariosto and Michael Angelo devoted to her their service and their muse.] [Footnote 163: See the Rev.F.W.

Farrar's admirable book, entitled 'Seekers after God' [16Sunday Library].

The author there says: "Epictetus was not a Christian.