Reflective older man

I am a man of sixty years of age, who has been long in the habit of thinking, and has not been inattentive to the course of events, which has been marked in the history of mankind, from the time of my birth, of which I am conscious, to the present hour, of which I am equally conscious, of having been myself a part of it. I have been, and am, a sharer in the lot, which has been cast upon man, of life, of knowledge, and of error, of good and evil, of joy and sorrow, of which, in the course of my experience, I have had my share, and have had to bear my part of the burden, which has been allotted to me, of the share of mortality, which has