You must bear with me: pray now forget and forgive.-King Lear.

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THE CHARISTIA, were solemn banquets of love and good will held at Rome on this day between families and relatives. The feast of Chiggim observed by the Jews, the Agapa, or love feasts of the primitive Christians, the Sussitia of the Cretans, and the Philitia of the Spartans were all of a kindred spirit to those household assemblies so laudably cherished by the Romans.-The Feast of Lanterns is kept in China on the fifteenth day of the first moon (this day), when it is said that two hundred millions of those fanciful emblems of light and benevolence are suspended over the portals of humanity. It is for broad-eyed erudition to retrace these footsteps through the sand-banks of time.

Pyrrhus passes into Italy about this day, with twenty elephants, three thousand horse, twenty thousand heavy-armed foot, two hundred archers, and five hundred slings, having very narrowly escaped shipwreck, B. C. 280. It was the merit of this heroic prince to be great only in his conceptions, and perhaps in adversity. He was humane, abounded in gratitude, was affable, and temperate in his enmities; but Antigonus compares him to a man at dice, who has admirable fortune but plays badly; for whatever he acquired by his exploits he lost by the vanity of his expectations. Like Pompey, that idol of the historian, he has all of our love, but none of our faith; a charming figure from Nature's chisel, resting on a pedestal of clay.-In the same year Demosthenes was honoured at Athens with a statue, on the motion of his nephew Demochares: Ceraunus is slain by the Gauls: Chrysippus, the Stoic, is born at Tarsus, more famous as the birth-place of St. Paul: and the Achæan League, in which the energies of Aratus were enlisted, is established.

Prince Charles and Buckingham embark at Dover and land at Boulogne, 1623, on their romantic expedition to Madrid.

The sixth month, Ventóse, of the French Republican Calendar began ; about the day that the sun enters the sign Pisces.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.- Euripides.

Among the hinderers of religion I comprehend as well those that are too swift, as those that are too slow; those that go before the law, or behind the law, as those that will not follow.---Sir Nicholas Bacon.

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X.

Cal.

20.

M. F. A. de Voltaire, 1694, Archbishop, (Thomas) Arundel,
Chatenay,
1414. Canterbury.

David Garrick, 1716, baptized, Martin V. (Pope), 1431.

St. Eucherius, Bp. of Orleans, speeches, and to foreign nations

St. Ulrick, of England, d. 1154. Will.

Infirmity, that decays the wise, doth ever make the better fool.-Malvolio.

XX. FEBRUARY.

It is easy for him who has his foot out of adversity to advise those who are travelling in the mire.-Eschylus.

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SOPHOCLES obtains his first tragie victory in the month Elaphebolivn, about the present day, B. C. 468, at those dramatic games established in memory of the recovery, by Cimon, of the ashes of Theseus from the Scyrians. This award of ten impartial censors, selected by the general himself, in favour of a young man then unknown within the theatre of fame, is said to have so disconcerted schylus that he retired to the vicinity of Gela, in Sicily, where, twelve years after, he closed his honourable existence. The same year in which the “Triptolemus” was produced at Athens marks also the birth of Socrates, and of Andocides (the orator); and the deaths of Simonides and Aristides, as well as the destruction of Mycena by the Argives. The" Clouds" of Aristophanes was exhibited in that month, B. C. 423, which fixes the age of Socrates at forty-five when he was calumniated upon the stage.

Edward VI. is inaugurated with three crowns, emblems of his sovereignty over England, France, and Ireland, 1547. This event took place in the prince's tenth year, and four days after the interment of his father.

The state-espousals of Peter, Czar of Muscovy, and his wife, Catharine Alexievna, called by etiquette his Majesty's Old Wedding, are solemnized at Petersburg, seven o'clock of the morning, 1712.

The "Freeholder" of Addison, on the standard of money, 1716; "One cannot but pity the melancholy condition of a miser in France, who is perpetually telling his livres, without being able to know how rich he is. He is as ridiculously puzzled and perplexed as a man that counts the stones on Salisbury Plain, which can never be settled to any certain number, but are more or fewer every time he reckons them."

Almost all girls of quality are educated as if they were to be great ladies, which is often as little to be expected, as an immoderate heat of the sun in the north of Scotland.-Lady Montagu.

Youth's liveliest bloom, a never-fading grace,
And more than beauty sparkles in her face;
Yet her bright form creates no loose desires,
At once she gives and purifies our fires,
And passions chaste as her own soul inspires.

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IX.

Cal. 21.

Pierre du Bosc, 1623, Bayeux. Caius Cæsar Agrippa, A.D. 4.

Pepin of Landen, Mayor of the military man, shall instantly

Shut the windows that the house may be light.---Arabian Proverb.

Those easily decide who regard but few things.—Aristoteles.

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JAMES HOWELL addresses Sir Edward Spencer this day, 1647-8:

'Surely the witch of Endor is no fable; the burning Joan of Arc, at Rouen, and the Marchioness D'Ancre, of late years, in Paris, are no fables: the execution of Nostradamus for a kind of witch, some fourscore years since, who among other things foretold that the senate of London will kill their King. St. Augustin speaks of women who could turn men to horses; and in some of the northern countries it is common to buy and sell winds as it is to do wines in other parts. Thamus, the Italian pilot, a little after the birth of Christ, was told in the dead of night that the great god Pan (the oracle of Calabria) was dead; thereunto may be added the rich widow that was burned in Lyons, because it was proved the devil had lain with her. But we need not cross the sea for examples of this kind, we have too many (God wot) at home. Scotland swarms with them, and persons of good quality are executed daily."

Swift's journals are continued on this day (N. S.) as follows: 1711.-" How do you pass your time this ugly weather? Gaming and drinking, I suppose: fine diversions for young ladies, truly. I wish you had some of our Seville oranges, and we some of your wine. I am resolved to have half a hogshead when I get to Ireland, if it be good and cheap, as it used to be; and I'll treat M. D. at my table in an evening, oh hoa, and laugh at great ministers of state." 1712." I saw Prince Eugene at court to-day very plain. He is plaguy yellow, and literally ugly besides. A puppy of figure here, with a fine chariot, asked me one day at court, when I had been just talking with some lords who stood by, Doctor, when shall we see you in the county of Meath? I whispered him to take care what he said, for the people would think he was some barbarian."

Nothing is more generally exploded than the folly of talking too much; yet I rarely remember to have seen five people together, where some one among them hath not been predominant, to the great restraint and disgust of all the rest.