If some unlucky barber notch my hair, Float like the tide; now high the building raise; Now pull it down; nor round nor square can please, You call it madness of the usual kind, Nor laugh, nor think trustees should be assign'd.—Horace. Day. IV. Id. 12. Edward VI. (of England), 1537, Calixtus (Pope), 222. Hampton Court. Hesiod and Homer were, I believe, about four hundred years older than myself, and no more: and these are the men who made a Theogony for the Greeks; who gave the gods their appellations, defined their qualities, appointed their honours, and described their forms. As for the poets that are said to have lived before these men, I am of opinion they came after them. Herodotus. Obits of the Latin Church. Honorius I. (Pope), 638. 1576. d. Ratisbon. Clement Edmondes, 1622. Dr. Isaac Basire, 1676. Dur ham. John Rowe, 1677. Bunhill Ludolf Kuster, 1716. d. Paris. Paris. Not only the centre of the bowl hath a progressive motion on the green, but the bowl, in its going forward from one part of the green to another, turns round about its own axis. Locke on the Earth. Lay in wisdom as the store for your journey from youth to old age, for it is the most certain possession. Bias. Accustom your mind to judge of the proportion or value of things, and do that substantially and not superficially; for, if you observe well, you shall find the logical part of some men's minds good, but the mathematical part nothing worth: that is, they can judge well of the mode of attaining the end, but ill of the value of the end itself; and hence some men fall in love with access to princes; others, with popular fame and applause, supposing they are things of great purchase, when, in many cases, they are but matters of envy, peril, and impediment. Acts. Bacon. THURSDAY. The fifth' day of the week, 'Dies Jovis,' in French, Le Jeudi, was dedicated to Thor, the Saxon Thunderer. Thursday' by the Turks is called Pershambe; by the Persians, Panjshambe; the Indians, Jumerat ; in ancient Arabic, Femunes, and in the modern, Yom hamsa. The great festival of Ingathering' on the octave of Tabernacles. The Augustalian games commemorated the Emperor's return to Rome. The Thames thrice flow'd, no ebb between,' 1411.-See Henry IV. All the knights templars in France are ordered to be arrested, 1307. COLUMBUS. The eleventh evening they ran towards the setting sun, twenty-seven leagues after its fall (six o'clock), at the rate of eleven knots an hour. At ten o'clock Columbus observed a moving light, resembling a torch, anon like a candle. At two in the morning land' was seen from the Pinta by Rodrigo de Triana, and the signal was immediately given. At daylight, a level pleasant island, Guanahani, one of the Lucayos, was descried about two leagues a-head, when the Admiral with all his host struck up the choral hymn, Te Deum Laudamus.' The sound flashed to his two companions, and that heathen air felt for the first time by many a strange repeated stroke its usurpation and dependence, 1492. Bearing the royal standard, he pronounced the sacred word, 'SALVADOR,' when he first kissed the spouse of his perilous quest. How big, how exalted, how divine, were now the viceroy's sensations! The great naval victory of the Dutch over the Spaniards, 1573. The fall and massacre of Wexford, under Oliver Cromwell, 1649. The public flagellation of Mrs. Celiers, a midwife, for politics, 1681. The capture by Admiral Rooke of the Vigo galleons, 1702. Sir J. B. Warren's French victory at Troy Island, three days, 1798. The Independence of Brazil under Don John is proclaimed, 1822. A sole caricature whose trade it is fo exhibit not indeed infamy and folly (for there he can sketch himself), but the sores and by-way infirmities of poor mortality, so as to disgust every good taste and play the mime at Cripplegate, surely in pity should be gifted by Heaven with a pair of hoofs and the baboon's skin. The Vandals. Day. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships? More lovely than the monarch of the sky, In wanton Arethusa's azure arms; And none but thou shalt be my paramour!---Dr. Faustus. III. Edward, Prince of Wales, 1453, Tiberius Drusus Claudius, U. C. Id. 13. 806. A. D. 54. Rome. Windsor. Anthony Bauderon de Senecai, Pius III. (Pope), 1503. 1643, Macon. Theodore Beza, 1605. d. Geneva. General Th. Harrison, er. 1660. Maurice, Count of Saxe, 1696, Nicholas de Harlay, 1629. Dresden. Thos. Rutherforth, 1712, Pap- Sir George Ent, 1689. Jewry. worth Everard. Ange Francois Fariau de St. Obits of the Latin Church. Henry Sully, 1728. St. Sulpice, Paris. Dr. John Gill, 1771. d. South- Richard Pulteney, 1801. died, Louis Claude de St. Martin, Martialis, Martyrs at Cor-Joachim Murat (of Naples), dova, 304. St. Gerald, Count of Aurillac, St. Colman, of Ireland, Martyr, 1815. shot, Pizzo Castle. Antonio Canova, 1822. Cathe dral of St. Mark, Venice. Vincenzo Monti, 1828. Tom Hardcastle, in endea St. Edward, King, and Con-vouring to be witty, found he fessor, translation, 1163. (See did better as a butt, and has since served in that capacity, to the great entertainment of his friends. Looker on. He walks upon the dreadful adder's back, Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves, With his own bolt, by my so potent art.---Prospero. Acts. FRIDAY. This is the 'sixth' day of the week, dedicated by the Saxons to Frea, the Queen of the Gods,' who seems to have united the qualities of the Roman Juno, Venus, and Diana, of blessed memory. Friday,' by the Turks, Indians, and in modern Arabic, is called Juma; by the Persians, Juma, or Adinu, and in ancient Arabic, Aruba. The 'Dies Veneris,' in French, Vendredi, is Friya's Day, in Saxon. The Roman Fontinalia,' in honour of those divinities, who preside over fountains and springs, which were adorned with chaplets. Their temple stood near the Porta Capena. The day of Jupiter Liberator. The Latin festival of Carpus, at whose house St. Paul lodged. The irruption of the Vandals into Spain, who dividing her prolific territories, turned their swords into ploughshares, A. D. 409. The great Council of Northampton is opened for the trial of Thomas Becket, by whose sentence he was placed at the king's mercy, 1164. The Parliament assembles, in which a project of reform was proposed, approved, and ordered to be enforced by the judges in their circuits, 1259. Its principal objects were to secure the inferior tenants from the oppression of their lords, and to purify the administration of justice. The knights templars, with the grand-master and possessions, are seized throughout the realm of France, 1307. This anniversary was selected four years later for assembling a council of the church at Vienne, in Dauphiny, to decide on the fate of the order, which was abolished by decree of the Pope, in the spring ensuing, 1312.-See 11th May. Henry IV. is inaugurated on the anniversary of his exile, 1399. That solemnity is memorable also for the institution of the Order of the Bath.' Moreau reaches Friburg after his masterly retreat, 1796. General Brock defeats the Canadians, but is slain, 1812. Napoleon Buonaparte lands at St. Helena a perpetual exile, 1815. Fear not to trust the word of a man whose probity you have experienced in pecuniary affairs. Terence. Day. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships? More lovely than the monarch of the sky, In wanton Arethusa's azure arms; And none but thou shalt be my paramour!---Dr. Faustus. 111. Edward, Prince of Wales, 1453, Tiberius Drusus Claudius, U.C. Id. 13. 806. A. D. 54. Rome. Windsor. ence. Anthony Bauderon de Senecai, Pius III. (Pope), 1503. 1643, Macon. Theodore Beza, 1605. d. Geneva. General Th. Harrison, er. 1660 Maurice, Count of Saxe, 1696, Nicholas de Harlay, 1629. Dresden. Thos. Rutherforth, 1712, Pap- Sir George Ent, 1689. Jewry. Martialis, Martyrs at Cor-Joachim Murat (of Na St. Gerald, Count of Aurillac, (or Orilhac), Patron of Up- St. Colman, of Ireland, Martyr, near Vienna, d. 1012. 1815. shot, Pizzo Castle. Antonio Canova, 1822. ‹ dral of St. Mark, Veni Vincenzo Monti, 1828. Tom Hardcastle, in St. Edward, King, and Con-vouring to be witty, fe fessor, translation, 1163. (See English Church Calendar.) did better as a butt, great entertainme the friends. He walks upon the dreadful adder's back, Loo Treading the lion and the dragon down.---Christendo |