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ts feeble, his breath becomes shorter; he very mark of approaching dissolution.

old Eighteen Hundred and Seventeen; and class of readers must remember him a young osy and blithesome as themselves, they will, feel interested in hearing some of his dying ons, with a few particulars of his past life. tence is still likely to be prolonged a few the presence of his daughter December, the sole survivor of his twelve fair children; but ght the father and daughter will expire toThe following are some of the expressions ave been taken down as they fell from his ps:

a,' said he, the son of old father Time, and of a numerous progeny; for he has had no n five thousand eight hundred and seventeen but it has ever been his fate to see one child before another was born. It is the opinion of at his own constitution is beginning to break that, when he has given birth to a hundred or re of us, his family will be complete, and then and the Self will be."

the Old Year called for his account book, ned over the pages with a sorrowful eye. He pt, it appears, an accurate account of the mominutes, hours, and months which he has isand subjoined, in some places, memorandums uses to which they have been applied, and of sses he has sustained. These particulars it be tedious, to detail, and perhaps the recollecf the reader may furnish them as well or better: e must notice one circumstance; upon turning ertain page in his accounts, the old man was affected, and the tears streamed down his ved cheeks as he examined it. This was the er of the forty-eight Sundays which he had isand which, of all the wealth he had to dispose as been, it appears, the most scandalously

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g in sunbeams, and laid up a store of costly ts for her luxuriant successors: but I canto enumerate the good qualities and graces y children. You, my poor December, dark complexion, and cold in your temper, greatly e my first-born January, with this difference, was most prone to anticipation, and you to

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ere should be any, who, upon hearing my mentation, may feel regret that they have not me môre kindly, I would beg leave to hint, s yet in their power to make some compensatheir past conduct, by rendering me, during v remaining days, as much service as is in ower; let them testify the sincerity of their by an immediate alteration in their behaviour. ld give me particular pleasure to see my only ng child treated with respect: let no one slight erings; she has a considerable part of my ty still to dispose of, which, if well employed, rn to good account. Not to mention the rest, s one precious Sunday yet in her gift; it would my last moments to know that this had been prized than the past.

is very likely that, at least after my decease, may reflect upon themselves for their misconowards me: to such I would leave it as my injunction, not to waste time in unavailing ; all their wishes and repentance will not recal o life. I shall never, never return! I would - earnestly recommend to their regard my ful successor, whose appearance is shortly exd. I cannot hope to survive long enough to ince him; but I would fain hope that he will meet a favourable reception; and that, in addition to attering honours which greeted my birth, and air promises which deceived my hopes, more ent exertion and more persevering efforts may Dd

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How swiftly pass our years!

How soon their night comes on!
A train of hopes and fears,
And human life is gone!

See the fair SUMMER now is past!
The foliage late that clad the trees,
Stript by the equinoxial blast,

Falls, like the dewdrops in the breeze!

Cold WINTER hastens on!

Fair Nature feels his grasp;
Weeps o'er all her beauties gone,
And sighs their glory past!

So, LIFE, thy Summer soon will end,
Thine Autumn too will quick decay,
And Winter come, when thou shalt bend
Within the tomb to mould away.

But Summer will return,

In all her beauties dressed!
Nature shall rejoice again,
And be by man caressed!

But, oh! Life's summer passed away,
Can never, never hope return!
Cold Winter comes, with cheerless ray,

To beat upon its dreary urn!

Then may we daily seek

A mansion in the skies,
Where Summers never cease,
And glory never dies!

There an eternal SPRING shall bloom,
With joys as vast as angels' pow'rs!
And thrice ten thousand harps in tune

1, xxii
nday, 293
- of, 12, 13
Day, 90

Day, 279

279

forest, 292

ion of B. V. M. 68
xxxvii

FOR 1822.

es saluted at Christmas,

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! Bee-eater, 156

Belzoni, M. 266-address to the
mummy at his Exhibition, 268
Bent-wedge, xxx
Bernacle-shell, xxii
Birds, congregating of, 289
Bivalves, xxviii
Bonnycastle, John, 142'
Botanist, British, 181
Botany, remarks on, 21, 179
Browney, 80%

Bryan, M. 68

Buccinum, xliv-harpa, xlv-lapil-
lus, ib.

striatum, ib.

Bucket, lines on, 218

Buds, 22, 23
Bulla, xliv

Buonaparte, N. 134,-lines on, 137
Burke, Dr. E. 281

Butterfly, lines on, 79
Bye-past-time, 3

Callcott, Dr. 142

Cardium, xxxi-edule, ib.

e-head shell, xxxii

Candles, benediction of, 34

-n Day, 142

es on, 124 note

dnesday, 38

Carling Sunday, 68

Carnival at Rome, 5-Cornish, 193

gardens, 184,185-lines on, Chama, xxxiii-hippopus, ib.-

-bath, 220

east, 297
■tion, 229

NOMICAL OCCURRENCES in
uary 1822, 15; February,
March, 73; April, 118;
149; June, 175; July,
; August, 230; September,
; October, 271; November,
; December, 306
=t, explained, 223
an flowers, lines on, 277-
--evening, lines on, 288
nnal scenery, lines on, 256,
,275

usian fount, ode to, 221
ngton, Hon. D. 65

eman, J. 111

asiatic, 220

, lord of, 4

et, Thomas à, 192

, Venerable, 145

estruction by, 219

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superstition respecting, 80- Conversion of St. Paul, 13

Cone-shell, xvi, xlii, xliii

Conus, xlii

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