...meanest insect of life, cannot be considered as having any just claim either to wisdom or benevolence : " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." It is a subject of deep lamentation that the people of this counf try are so frequently guilty of inhumanity...

...being at least problematical, may deserve some consideration. Whether it be true that " tJ. V..HI fhe poor beetle that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies ;" or a somewhat less degree of anguish ; the vague assumption that the perceptions of the lower animals...

...Although we may be certain that Shakspeare mistook the appearance for the reality, when he said, that "The poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal...sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies," and that the mere fact of its natural exposure to such a death would not otherwise be reconcilable...

...the Creator given feeling and a sense of pain, that truly in the words of the bard it may be said, " The poor beetle that we tread upon In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." THE FAMILY MONITOR. No. IX. SEPTEMBER, 1831. VOL. I. FEASTS AND FASTS OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND EXPLAINED....

...(5) Preparation. 6) Vastncss of extent. (7) Shut up. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As whi-n a giant dies. Claud. Why give you ine this shame 1 Think you I can a resolution letch From flowery...

...quite Shakspearean ; as, where the bard says — — " The poor beetle that we tread upon, In coporeal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies." No doubt : but qucre — how great a pang does the poor beetle find, when a giant dies ? Let us return. Caricature...

...nothing good, But graciously to know I am no hetter. The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon. In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great, As when a giant dies ! "Pis not impossible But one, the wicked'st caitiff on the ground May seem as shy, as grave, as just,...

...respect Than a perpetual honor. Darest thou die ? The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies. Preparation. ! Extent. Clau. Why give you me this shame ? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery...

...orders of animals ? " Instead, therefore of believing and being grieved by the belief, that the insect we tread upon " In corporal 'sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies," the very converse is nearer the truth. " Had a giant lost an arm or a leg," continue the authors just...

...more respect Than a perpetual honour. Dar'st thou die? The sense of death is most in apprehension; And 90 ACT III. 91 Claud. Why give you me this shame? Think you I can a resolution fetch From flowery tenderness?...