...envy, avarice, superstition, despair, love, with the like cares ami passions that infest human life. 13 I here fetched a deep sigh : Alas, said I, man was...Vain ! how is he given away to misery and mortality I tortured in life, and swallowed up in death ! The genius, being moved with rompxssion towards me,...

...Mirzah gives utterance to the same mournful sentiment as the ironical Charon, and sadly exclaims, " Man was made in vain ! How is he given away to misery...mortality, tortured in life and swallowed up in death !" But here the resemblance ends and the great contrast strikes us forcibly. In the belief of Lucian,...