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Many, by a tooconstant or forced attention, have lost their senses. John, out of charity and compassion, served him without any wages. Asoul, says he, often wants not so much spurring in the beginning ofher conversion; her own fervor and cheerfulness make her run vigorously. Yet the purity of his language, the liveliness ofhis images and similes, the perspicuity of his expression, and thecopiou

is last day, which he passed over in extraordinary jubilation of soul,out of his earnest desire of being with Christ. THIS saint, nobly born in Brabant, then called Hasbain, was educated inthe abbey of St. JOHN, generally distinguished by the appellation of Climacus, fromhis excellent book entitled Climax, or the Ladder to Perfection, wasborn about the year 525, probably in Palestine. ALDEGONDES, V.