Day. On utmost Kilda's shore, whose lonely race He drives them from his fort, the towering seat, He wings his course, and preys in distant isles.-Thomson. IV. Nicholas le Fevre, 1544, Paris. Didius Julian (Emperor), exe Non. 2. cuted, 193. St. Nicephorus (Patriarch), 828. Robert Beaumont, Earl of Lei cester, 1118. Thomas, Duke of Norfolk, 1572. executed, Tower Hill. James Douglas, Earl of Morton, I inquire not into your particular conduct; I am satisfied with the result; I want not to know whether you made two or three or £500,000; keep what you have got: have you made a numerous people rich and happy; have you increased the commerce of the country, enlarged its means of wealth, and improved its revenues? in so doing you have reflected honour M. Dambourney, 1795. Rouen. and glory on the character of the British nation.-Burke. Obits of the Latin Church. 1581. guillotined, Edinburgh. Sir William Berkeley, killed, 1666. Sir Edward Leigh, 1671. Rush all. The power of forgiving flows from a strength of soul conscious of its own force, whence it draws a certain safety which its enemy is not of consideration enough to interrupt; for 'tis peculiar in the make of a brave man to have his friends seem much above him, his enemies much below him. Steele. Let it be doom's-day; nay, take longer scope; Pay when th' art honest, let me have some hope.-Epigrum. To England will I steal, and there I'll steal: And swear, I got them in the Gallia wars.-Pistol. Acts. HEREWARD, Lord of Born, destroys the town and abbey of Peterborough, 1070. Louis the Dauphin receives the homage of his English subjects, the citizens and barons, in the cathedral of St. Paul, 1216. The espousals of Catherine the Fair (better known as sweet Kate), of France, with Harry V. are celebrated in the cathedral of Troyes, Trinity Sunday, at noon, 1420. Upon the fifth day, he opened the siege of Sens; "the whiche town is worthily beseged: for ther ly at that sege, two kyngs-queenes, IV ducks, with my loord of Bedford, whanne he cometh hedir." The great Napier addresses his letter to Anthony (brother to Lord) Bacon, entitled "Secret inventions necessary for defending the island against strangers, the enemies of God's truth and religion," 1596. The principle of his everlasting Logarithmic Canon had been then established for about two years. Prince Henry, the hope of the nation, is invested with the order of the Garter, 1603. Charles I. grants to James Hay, Earl of Carlisle, by letters patent, all the Caribbean Islands, including Barbadoes, 1627. General Monk defeats the Dutch, under Van Tromp, off the North Foreland, 1653. In this engagement, which continued for two days, twenty ships were taken and destroyed. King Charles I. issues a remonstrance 1637, to the mayor and aldermen of the city of Winchester: "Trusty and well-beloved, we greet you well. Whereas we are given to understand by our well-beloved chaplain, Doctor Young, Dean of Winchester, that he hath lately given you notice of an order which, with the advice of the lords of our privy council, we have settled for the regulating of our cathedral church at Winchester, in some particulars which were in difference between that church and the mayor and corporation of our city there, namely, that our mayor there should not bear up his maces in the quire of that our church. Come, your answer in broken musick; for thy voice is musick, and thy English broken. King Henry V. He preach'd the joys of Heaven, and pains of Hell, But on eternal mercy lov'd to dwell. He taught the gospel rather than the law; A Good Parson. Acts. "WHEREUPON you, the Mayor of Winchester, and others by your example, have ever since forborne to come to our cathedral church there. We have therefore thought fit, for the preservation of the solemnity of divine service in so ancient and eminent a church, and likewise for your own good, to will and require you and your company to frequent that holy place duly from time to time, upon Sundays and Holidays, with all due reverence, and that you be there at the beginning of divine service; and that at your going in and coming out, and whilst you are there, you carry yourselves as it becometh you, in all obedience and conformity to the canons of the church, and to the commendable customs of that and other our cathedrals; and herein you are not to fail, we having commanded the diocesan and dean of that place to take especial care to see this performed; and to give an account from time to time of your demeanours herein. This we hold most fit to be observed for prevention of disorder and differences between the church and the city; in the good of both which, seeing we have so great an interest, it shall be our special care that the distinct liberties and privileges granted by our royal progenitors to these several bodies, be inviolably kept for all times to come, and that every one in his own place be respected and obeyed accordingly. And therefore we do hereby order, that from henceforth there shall not be borne before the mayor of that our city any maces at all, within the quire of our said cathedral church at Winchester; neither shall he make any use of these ensigns of authority in any part of the cathedral church or liberties thereof, but upon courtesy and permission expressly granted by the dean and chapter." A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp. Richelieu. Far to the right, where Appennine ascends, Its uplands sloping deck the mountain's side, Woods over woods in gay theatric pride; While oft some temple's mouldering tops between With memorable grandeur mark the scene.---Goldsmith. Acts. THE day of St. Elmo, invocated by the mariners in the Mediterranean. In 1658 the wind had been northerly at London for nearly six months. Rob Roy Macgregor (so well remembered) surrenders to the Duke of Athol, but afterwards escapes into the Highlands of Scotland, 1717. The Regatta at Venice, 1740: “The Signora Pisani Mocinego's piote represented the chariot of the Night, drawn by four sea-horses, and showing the rising of the moon, accompanied with stars; the statues on each side representing the hours, to the number of twenty-four, rowed by gondoliers in rich liveries, which were changed three times, all of equal richness, and the decorations changed also to the dawn of Aurora and the mid-day sun, the statues being new dressed every time, the first in green, the second time in red, and the last blue, all equally laced with silver, there being three races. Signor Contarini's piote showed the liberal arts : Apollo was seated on the stern upon mount Parnassus, Pegasus behind, and the Muses seated round him: opposite was a figure representing Painting, with Fame blowing her trumpet; and on each side Sculpture and Music in their proper dresses. Signor Paul Doria had the chariot of Diana, who appeared hunting in a large wood; the trees, hounds, stag, and nymphs, all done naturally: the gondoliers dressed like peasants attending the chace; and Endymion, lying under a large tree, gazing on the goddess." The six founders of the Academy of Sciences at Stockholm (one of whom was Linnæus) first assemble, 1739. This institution was incorporated under the name of The Royal Swedish Academy, on the 31st of March, 1741. The City of Grand Cairo is nearly destroyed by an earthquake, and 40,000 of its inhabitants are buried in the ruins, 1754. The riots under Lord George Gordon, in St. George's Fields, 1780.Two Catholic chapels and the prison of Newgate were destroyed. Born not to serve himself, his gen'rous plan Takes in the universe, nor ends in man.-Lucan on Cato. Thou, to whom the world unknown I see, I see thee near. I know thy hurried step, thy haggard eye! Like thee I start, like thee disorder'd fly. For, lo, what monsters in thy train appear.-Ode to Fear Births. Dr. Tho. Smith, 1638, London. Non. Dr. J. Gregory, 1724, Aberdeen. Dr. James Hutton, 1726, Edinburgh. 3. Deaths. St. Barsabias, 342. d. Astahara, in Persia. Bishop (John) Aylmer, 1594. d. Fulham. (St. Paul's.) Robert Tannahill, 1774, Paisley. William Harvey, 1657. Hemp Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.---Rochefoucault. |