Death

,—the grand leveller of human distinctions. Armed with his dreadful scymitar, he mows down princes and peasants indiscriminately; but he is partial to sorrow and misfortune, visiting the wretched under their afflictions, and relieving them from all their troubles, while at the very same instant he will hurl a tyrant, in the plenitude of omnipotence, from his throne, and level the conqueror of worlds in the dust. He will stand invisible at the elbow of Kings, when they are meditating the most wasteful and unbounded schemes of ambition and conquest, the slavery of their own subjects, and the extermination of distant empires. Death in an instant blasts their infernal projects, and sends them to their accunt, with all their enormities on their heads.