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The dances of death, through the various stages of human life : wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited in forty-six copper plates; done from the original designs ... ; to which are prefixed, descriptions of each plate in French and English, with the scripture text from which the designs were taken
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MATE XXVII.— THE GENTLEMAN.

XI e is doing every thing in Ins power to put off the moraentthat is to separate him for ever from his possessions, and his fineseat, which appears in the back ground ; but Death inexorablehas already set down beside him the fatal bier ; into which he i*about to make him enter.

Quis est liomo, qui vivet> et non videbit mortem: eruet animara•uam de manu inferi ? Psal. lxxxviii. 49.

PLANCHE XXVII.— LE GENTILHOMME.

JLt. fait tout ce qu'il peut pour reculer le moment qui doit leseparer pour toujours de ses possessions, & de son beau chäteauqui paroit dans le lointain; mais la Mort inexorable a deja placeprcs de lui la biere fatale ou eile va le faire entrer.

 
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