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She was born at Antioch, and was the daughter of a Pagan priest. Olybius, president of the East, under the Romans, wished to marry her; but finding that Margaret was a Christian, he postponed his intended nuptials until he could prevail on her to renounce her religion. Our saint, however, was inflexible, and was first tortured, and then beheaded, in the year 278.

22.-MARY MAGDALEN.

This day was first dedicated to the memory of St. Mary Magdalen, by King Edward VI; and in his Common Prayer, the Gospel for the day is from St. Luke, chap. vii, verse 36. Our reformers, however, upon a more strict inquiry, finding it doubtful whether this woman, mentioned in the Gospel, was really Mary Magdalen, thought it prudent to discontinue the festival.

*22. 1820.-DR. JOHN MURRAY DIED, Author of The System of Chemistry,' in four vols. 8vo, a work of standard celebrity, both at home and abroad; and which, from the spirit of profound and accurate analysis every where displayed in it, and from the force, clearness, and precision of its statements, has essentially contributed to advance chemistry to the high rank which it now holds among the liberal sciences. A Supplement to this work was published in 1809.

25.-SAINT JAMES.

James was surnamed the Great, either on account of his age, being esteemed older than the other James, or for some particular honour conferred upon him by our Lord. He was by birth a Galilean, and partner with Peter in fishing, from which our Lord called him to be one of his disciples: Mark i, 19, 20. Of his ardent zeal, no other proof is necessary than his becoming the victim of Herod Agrippa. The Spa

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-1793.-ROBERT CLARE BORN.

st volume (pp. 195-197) we gave a short of Clare, and two specimens of his poetry; s, we are happy to find, that from being a abourer, a lime-burner, in the county of con, Clare is raised at last to hope, hapenjoyments of filial piety and connubial benevolent gifts or offerings to his genius ount of forty-five pounds per annum.

This ne owes, in an especial manner, to the libeet of Messrs. Taylor and Hessey, of Fleetpublished his first volume of poems-and nty of the Fitzwilliam family, the Earl of Earl Spencer, Lord Radstock, and others, e done themselves everlasting honour by ering care of this unprotected Parnassian ich, but for their timely interference, had been e blighted by the rude and freezing wind of Though passing rich with forty pounds a are has two aged parents to support, a wife and the prospect of an increasing family; comfort we trust the public will liberally er, by the purchase of the 'Village Minstrel,' collection of poems, in two small volumes, ay, we think, be allowed to take their station helves of the library, with the productions TTIE, BLOOMFIELD, and KIRKE WHITE.

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How sweet it is at early morn to spring
From sleep and its bewildered fantasies;
To catch the rose's fragrance on the wing
Ere the first dews have faded from its dyes;
To trace the changeful tissue of the skies,
The purple stealing on the tender gray,

Then the streaked red-the long, gold line that lies
Fringing the hill that seems to check its way;

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'To meet the sun upon the upland lawn,' to watch his majestic rising from the gilded east, to contemplate the rosy-fingered morning, opening the day upon man, to view the prismatic colours reflected in the drops of dew, to brush that dew with early foot from the shrub and floweret in our healthful walk,to behold the glories of the setting sun, or the silvery moonbeam playing on the surface of the quiescent lake to admire the expanded rose-bud, and to watch the progress of nature in its spring, are amongst the loveliest and sublimest enjoyments, and are unknown in the busy haunts of vicious and populous cities. The country, retirement, health, order, sobriety, and morality, can alone furnish them. But by those, and by those only, whose minds are fitted to receive the impressions communicated to them by the grandest objects in nature, can all the beauties of a rising or a setting sun be truly felt and enjoyed. In a neglected, but beautiful little work, entitled Clio, or an Essay on Taste,' attributed to a relative of Archbishop Usher, we have this charming passage on the attractions of the rising sun. You have arisen early at times' (says the author) in the summer season, totake the advantage of the cool of the morning to ride

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