Day. The most ungentle of his tribe was he; No gen'rous precept ever touch'd his heart: With concords false, and hideous prosody He scrawl'd his task, and blunder'd o'er his part. On barb'rous plunder bent, with savage eye He mark'd where wrapt in down the younglins lay, Then rushing seiz'd the wretched family, And bore them in his impious hands away.-The Goldfinches. XVII. Edward the Black Prince (of Count Robert (of Orleans), Cal. 15. Anthony Francis de Fourcroy, John Udal, 1592. d. in prison. The solicitude of peers to preserve or exalt their rank, is es St. Bernard (a Savoyard), of teemed no other than a manly Menthon, Founder of the and becoming ambition: a similar care in commoners is deemed either vanity, formality, or pride. Shenstone. In clothes I would have the fashion choose the man, and not the man the fashion. King James. Faith, milk-white Faith! of old belov'd so well, Acts. HENRY, Prince of Wales (the eldest rebel-son of Henry II.), is inaugurated king, at Westminster, in his father's life-time, 1170. Dante is chosen chief magistrate of his native city, 1300. Charles V. makes his public entry into Augsburg, where the members of the Diet had assembled. The famous decree, called the Confession of Augsburg, drawn up by Melancthon, was then read, 1530. Charles I. is entertained at Edinburgh with a magnificent spectacle,' 1633. "At the approach of the King, the theatre (a curtain drawn) manifested Mercury, in his feathered hat and his caduceus, with a hundred and seven Scottish kings, which he had brought from the Elysian Fields; Fergus the First had a speech in Latin." This was the birthday of Martha Blount (anglicè Patty) the penchant and legatee of the bard of Twittenham. Abel Jansen Tasman, the Dutch navigator, arrives at Batavia, after having sailed round the southern side of the globe, 1643. He started on the 5th of September, 1642, and discovered Van Dieman's Land, with the Island of New Zealand, which he called Staten Island. The battle of Placentia, between the allies and Spaniards, 1746. Anson arrives at Spithead after a voyage of three years and nine months, round the world, 1744. The treasures of the famous Acapulco galleon were conveyed to London in thirty-two waggons, "with music playing, and amidst the shouts of the rejoicing populace; and the booty was divided among those brave men who had shared his glory and his toils." The Nabob Surajah Dowla invests Calcutta at the head of 70,000 horse and foot with four hundred elephants, 1756. A memorable eruption of Mount Vesuvius, ten at night, 1794. The man who has not any thing to boast of but his illustrious ancestors, is like a potato- the only good belonging to him is under ground. Sir Thomas Overbury. Mo Day. Only the house of Chivalry (howe'er In that which gentry should sustain) decay'd: Cobwebb'd and rusty; not a helm affords A spark of lustre, which were wont to give Light to the world, and made the nation live.-Jonson. 1286. Ely. XVI. Edward I. (of England), 1239. Bishop (Hugh) de Balsam, Cal. Sir John Cheke, 1514, Cam16. bridge. Louis Duke of Saint-Simon, 1675, Paris. Religion in its very nature presupposes, in all those who will embrace it, a certain degree of integrity and honesty; which it was intended to try whether men have or not, and to exercise, in such as have it, in order to its improvement. Obits of the Latin Church. John de la Pole, Earl of Lin coln, 1487. killed, Stoke. Sixtus Betuleius, 1554. died, Augsburg. Lewis Capellus, 1658. died, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1666. borough, 1722. d. Windsor Therefore the question is not Sts. Quiricus (or Cyr), Patron at all, whether the evidence of of Nevers, and Julitta of Ico-religion be satisfactory; but, nium, Martyrs at Tarsus, 305. whether it be, in reason, suffiSt. Aurelian, Archbishop of Arles, | cient to prove and discipline d. 552. that virtue which it presupposes? Now the evidence of it is fully sufficient for all those purposes of probation. Butler. St. John Francis Regis, of Lan- It is that which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public; it is that of which every man you meet puts on the show. Bishop Butler. The earth unplough'd shall yield her crop, Pure honey from the oak shall drop, The fountain shall run milk: The thistle shall the lily bear, And every bramble roses wear, And every worm make silk.---Pallas.---The Golden Age. Acts. THE METOIKIA were celebrated at Athens upon the sixteenth of Hecatombæon, to commemorate the union, by Theseus, of the scattered families of Attica into a commonwealth, about B. C. 1200. These festivals were under the protection of the goddess Pallas, or Minerva. The great Egyptian festival of Apis, or Mneuis, during seven days. The deposition of Arzema, Queen of Persia, "the sixth of the transient usurpers, who had arisen and vanished in three or four years, since the death of Chosroes, and the defeat of Heraclius." Her tiara was placed on the head of YESDEGIRD, the grandson of Chosroes (a youth of fifteen), nine days after the death of Mahomet; and the same ÆRA, which coincided with an astronomical period (completing the twelfth cycle of one hundred and twenty years each), records the fall of the Sassanian dynasty, and the religion of Zoroaster, B. C. 632. This famous. æra, as amended by the Sultan Geladeddin Shah, is now in use by the Parsees of India, some of the provinces beginning the year in September, and others in October.-See 15th March. The anniversary of the birth of Edward I. called the English Justinian. In 1285, Ela, Countess of Warwick, held the manor of Hoke-norton, in Oxfordshire, by the sergeantry of carving at the King's table on his birthday; and she was to have the knife the King then used at table. The celebrated battle of Stoke, 1487. Lambert Simnel received the King's pardon, and was made a scullion in the royal kitchen, and afterwards a falconer, in reward of his good conduct.-See 2d May. The States-General of France form themselves into the National Assembly, 1789.-Joseph Buonaparte is proclaimed King of Spain, 1808. "Your princes," said Napoleon, "have ceded to me their rights to the crown of Spain. Your nation is old; my mission is to restore its youth." An earthquake near Poonah, in the East Indies, which swallowed up a large district, and more than two thousand persons, 1819. The Turkish imperial corps of guards, called the Janizaries, are defeated and abolished, 1826. This military body, consisting of trained captives, was first instituted in 1362, by the third Amurath. That dog shall be tied up with a chain four cubits long, which hath bit any body. Laws of Solon. Day. Only the house of Chivalry (howe'er In that which gentry should sustain) decay'd: That struck the stars, and rais'd the British crown To be a constellation: shields and swords, Cobwebb'd and rusty; not a helm affords A spark of lustre, which were wont to give Light to the world, and made the nation live.-Jonson. XVI. Edward I. (of England), 1239. Bishop (Hugh) de Balsam, Cal. Sir John Cheke, 1514, Cam 16. bridge. Louis Duke of Saint-Simon, 1675, Paris. Religion in its very nature Obits of the Latin Church. 1286. Ely. John de la Pole, Earl of Lin coln, 1487. killed, Stoke. Sixtus Betuleius, 1554. died, Augsburg. Lewis Capellus, 1658. died, Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1666. borough, 1722. d. Windsor Therefore the question is not Sts. Quiricus (or Cyr), Patron at all, whether the evidence of of Nevers, and Julitta of Ico-religion be satisfactory; but, nium, Martyrs at Tarsus, 305. whether it be, in reason, suffiSt. Aurelian, Archbishop of Arles, | cient to prove and discipline d. 552. that virtue which it presupposes? St. John Francis Regis, of Lan-Now the evidence of it is fully guedoc, of the Society of sufficient for all those purposes Jesus, 1640. of probation. Butler. It is that which all ages and all countries have made profession of in public; it is that of which every man you meet puts on the show. Bishop Butler. |