As of the green leaves on a thick tree, some fall, and some grow; so is the generation of flesh and blood, one cometh to an end, and another is born.

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Cal. Tiberius Hemsterhuys, 1685, Cardinal Aleander, 1542.

Affections, like the conscience, are rather to be led than drawn; and it is to be feared, they that marry where they do not love, will love where they do not marry. Fuller.

It was observed, by one of the Fathers, that Christ's coat, indeed, had no seam, but the church's vesture was of divers colours.

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SEPTUAGESIMA SUNDAY, was established by Gregory the Great, one of the best of the Popes, about the beginning of the seventh century, as a preparative for the Lent and Easter solemnities, and is so called from its falling on the seventieth day preceding Low Sunday, when the high feast of Easter, in remembrance of our Saviour's resurrection, terminated. It is movable with the Paschal moon, but fixed relatively the second week before Shrove (i. e. Quinquagesima) Sunday, and the ninth from EASTER DAY.-See 5th April.

The dedication of a temple to Juno Sospita (the preserver), is mentioned on this day as a Roman festival. Cicero describes the goddess as one who is never seen, even in a dream, without a goat-skin, a spear, a little shield, and broad sandals. There is a small brass image of her in the Florence Gallery, but mutilated, and the feet are bare. It is not extravagant to identify this lady with the Pallas of the Greeks.

Edward III. is crowned at Windsor, 1327, in his fifteenth year. Edward, Duke of York (Edward IV.) revenges his father's death by a signal victory over the royalists, commanded by Jasper, Earl of Pembroke, at Mortimer's Cross, in Herefordshire, 1461.

Lord Burleigh signs the Commission, "penned" by himself, for the execution of the Queen of Scots, directed to the Earls of Shrewsbury, Kent, Derby, Cumberland, and Pembroke (Shakspeare's patron), 1587.

The artificial stream, named the New River, is begun by Sir Hugh Middleton, from two springs, one in the parish of Amwell, the other near Ware (called Chadwell), in Hertfordshire, the waters of which he united, 1608. Although eight hundred bridges were constructed, and six hundred workmen were generally employed during the period of more than five years, over a surface of thirty-nine miles, the projector's disbursements appear to have not exceeded 16,000l. money of that day.

The Royal Sovereign, man-of-war, is burnt at Chatham, 1696. The levies of money for building this noble vessel caused the Rebellion. War is declared against England and Holland by the French, 1793. The Bell Rock Light-house, on the Scotch coast, is illumined, 1811. An eruption of the volcano of Albay, in Luconia, one of the Philippine Isles, 1814, which destroyed five towns, and twelve hundred persons. The great winding-sheets that bury all things in oblivion are two; deluges and, earthquakes. Bacon.

Mortals, that would follow me,
Love Virtue; she alone is free:
She can teach ye how to climb
Higher than the sphery chime.-Comus.

St. Lawrence, Abp. of Canter-are, to change my habitation in bury, d. 619.

It is in human life as in a game at tables, one may wish he had the highest cast; but if his chance be otherwise, he is even to play it as well as he can, and make the best of it. Plutarch.

Men and the will of men constitute a state.-Alcæus.

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THE PURIFICATION, a day set apart by the church to commemorate the attendance of the Virgin Mary in the Temple, on the fortieth day after childbirth, as commanded by the law. It is also called CANDLEMAS DAY from the practice still continued at Rome, but relinquished here in 1548, of lighting the churches with candles of wax-emblems of that splendour and purity it was intended to memorize; and perhaps innocently adopted from the Luceria, or Proserpinal rites, which were celebrated with unusual solemnity by the Romans on the same or preceding day, in the Salarian groves. It is called a Grand DAY in the Inns of Court; a GAUDY DAY at the two Universities; and a COLLAR DAY at St. James's, being one of the three great holidays, during the Terms, on which all legal and official business is suspended.

King Stephen, whose valour was deserving of a better fortune, is defeated and taken captive at the battle (before the castle) of Lincoln, 1141. In 1415 seven dolphins were observed sporting in the Thames at London, four of which were taken.

Charles I. is crowned king of his English dominions, 1626.

Cowley produces, at Trinity College, Cambridge, his Latin comedy, in prose, called "Naufragium Joculare," 1638; having neither the facility of a popular, nor the accuracy of a learned work, it seems to be now universally neglected, saith Johnson; but let it also be remembered that that precocious genius had not then attained his majority.

Captain Alexander Selkirk is discovered by two British privateers in his solitude at Juan de Fernandez, an Island west of Chili, in the South Sea, where he had lived for four years and four months, and forgotten the dialect of his country.-See Robinson Crusoe.

The French, upon the capitulation of Mantua this day, take entire possession of the Pope's dominions, when Buonaparte dictates to his holiness those pious terms of pacification, signed at Tolentino ten days after, 1797.

The first fair at Novi, in the Milanese, is established.

The unknown are better than ill known:
Rumour can ope' the grave.-Cowley.

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There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.-Hamlet.

III. Henry Cromwell (N. S.), 1627. Sweyn (of Denmark), 1014. d.

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world, and contemned the play of Gasp. Risbeck, 1786. d. Arau.

The sense is like the sun; for the sun seals up the globe of heaven, and opens the globe of earth: so the sense doth obscure heavenly things, and reveals earthly things. Philo Judæus.