The British dance of death, exemplified in a series of engravings from drawings by Van Assen : with explanatory and moral essays / from drawings by Van Assen.

  • Van Assen, Benedictus Antonio, -1817.
Date:
1823
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The British dance of death, exemplified in a series of engravings from drawings by Van Assen : with explanatory and moral essays / from drawings by Van Assen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    human race, and from the profundity of intel- lect thus displayed, given the most incon- testible evidence that human nature, unlike the brute creation, is possessed of that essence of the Divinity, —an immortal soul. As the faculties of the brain, when powerfully called into action, tend more to ennoble man than the labours of all the other corporeal functions, which are merely mechanical; even so may the youth, though early deprived of existence, have established with futurity an imperishable name, from the result of those too intense lucubrations which were perhaps in a great measure instrumental to his early passage from this life into a better world. The great Raphael, that prince of painters, and most accomplished of men, sunk to the grave at a period of life when the faculties had just attained their zenith, thus leaving the admiring world to deplore the sudden curtail- ment of mental energies that never were sur- passed. Yet though consigned to the marble sepulchre, liis name is chronicled to future