Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Recollections of Forty Years, Vol. 1 of 2
NE of the greatest of Roman Emperors, when lying upon his death-bed at York, said, Omnia feci, nihil expedit. And yet, when asked for the watchword of the night, with his dying breath he gave it: Laboremus. M. De Lesseps, in the course of his long and honoured career, has made the watch word of the dying Emperor his rule of life but he is not likely, when his last hour comes, to look on all the works his hands have wrought and on the labour that he has laboured to do, and find them vanity and vexation of spirit. For what else was the ex clamation of the Roman Emperor but a paraphrase of the Preacher's sermon upon the vanity of all human effort and human enjoyment? In a spiritual sense all this is true enough, no doubt, but the labour of a life mainly devoted to the furtherance of works cal culated to benefit others rather than oneself, and to add to the general sum of the welfare of humanity, is not assuredly wasted.
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