1751. Type and Calculation of a LUNAR ECLIPSE. 177 N Wednesday, May 29, 1751, in the morning, there will be a partial and visible eclipse of the moon; at the middle of which about of her diameter will be obfcured. It is expected, that the following numbers will be found nearly to agree with the most accurate obfervation, Digits eclipfed to . The fubfequent numbers exhibit the time that will elapfe from the beginning of the aclipfe (at any place) until any number of digits are obfcured. Immerfion. Minutes Seconds Emerfion. : 46 Total duration. Note, The digits on the left belong to both rows of figures. A calculation from Dunthorne's tables, of the places of the fun and moon for May 29, 1751. at 53 minutes and 41 feconds after 1 in the morning. Sun's mean Longitude. Afcending Node. Apogee. S Equation True longitude 2:17:45: 40 add. } 1 S. O II 8: 12 40 58 8:37 26 Mean Longitude of the Moon. 9: I : 57 7: 28: 32: 57 Horizontal parallax of the moon 178 PEEVISHNESS display'd and cenfur'd. April On PEEVISHNESS. EEVISHNESS would, perhaps, very little difturb the peace of mankind, were it always the confequence of fuperfluous delicacy; for it is the privi lege only of deep refi ation or lively fan. A cy to destroy happiness by art and refinement. But by a continual indulgence of a particular humour, or by a long enjoyment of undifputed fuperiority, the dull and the thoughtleis may acquire the power of tormenting themselves and others, and become fufficiently ridiculous or hateful to those who are within fight of their conduct, or reach of their influence. There are many veterans of luxury, upon whom every noon brings a paroxyfm of violence, fury, and execration; who never fit down to their dinner without finding the meat fo injudiciously hought, or fo unskilfully dreffed, fuch blunders in the fealoning, or fuch improprieties in the fauce, as can scarcely be expiated without blood; and who, in the tranfports of refentment, make very little diftinctions between guilt and innocence, but It fly their menaces, or growl out their difcontent upon all whom fortune puts in their way. It is not eafy to image a more unhappy condition than that of dependance on a peevish man. In every other state of inferiority the certainty of pleafing is perpetually increased by a fuller knowledge of our duty or employment, and fecurity and confidence are ftrengthened by every new act of trust and proof of fidelity. But peevishnels facrifices to a momentary offence the obfequioufnefs or usefulness of half a life, and as more is performed encreafes her exactions. Chryfalus gained a fortune by trade, and retired into the country, and having a brother burthened by the number of his children, adopted one of his fons. The boy was difmiffed with many prudent ad- · monitions, informed of his father's inability to maintain him in his native rank, cautioned against all oppofition to the opi ed and adjusted, and behaved with fuch prudence and circumfpection, that after fix years the will was made, and Juvenculus was declared heir. But unhappily, a month afterwards, retiring at night from his uncle's chamber, he left the door open behind him; the old man tore his will, and being then perceptibly declining, for want of time to deliberate, left his money to a trading company. When female minds are imbittered by age or folitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and fpiteful fuperintendence of domeftick trifles. Eriphile has employed her eloquence for 20 years upon the degeneracy of fervants, the naftiB nefs of her house, the ruin of her furniture, the difficulty of preferving tapestry from the moths, and the carelesness of the fluts whom the employs in brushing it. It is her bufinefs every morning to vifit all the rooms, in hopes of finding a chair without its cover, a window fhut or open contrary to her orders, a fpot on the hearth, or a feather on the floor, that the reft of the day may be justifiably spent in taunts of contempt and vociferations of anger. She lives for no other purpose but to preferve the neatnefs of a house and gardens, and feels neither inclination to vice, nor aspiration after virtue, while fhe is engroffed by the great employment of keeping gravel from grafs, and wainscot from D duft. Of three amiable nieces the has declared herself an irreconcileable enemy to one, because he broke off a tulip with her hoop; to another, because the fpilt her coffee on a Turkey carpet; and to the third, because the let a wet dog run into the parlour. She has broken off her intercourie of vifits because company makes a houfe dirty, and refolves to confine herself more to her own affairs, and to live no longer in mire by foolish lenity and indulgence. E Peevishness is generally the vice of narrow minds, and, except when it is the effect of anguish and disease, by which the refolution is broken, and the mind made too feeble to bear the lightest addition to its nions or precepts of his uncle, and ani- F miferies, proceeds from an unreasonable mited to perfeverance by the hopes of fup- perfuafion of the importance of trifles. The proper remedies againft it are the confideration of the dignity of human nature, and of the folly of fuffering perturbation and uneafinefs from failures unworthy of our notice. He that refigns his peace to little cafualties, and feffers the courfe of his life to be inter upted by fortuitous inadvertencies, or trivial offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and lofes all that conftancy and equanimity which constitute the chief praife of a wife man. HOB. Dolly, my fweetly blooming, dearest Dolly. Ye woods, ye lawns, ye We quickly met and down we fate, Then told our loves beneath yon holly; You'd farely envy me and Dolly. O my Dolly, &c. Poetical ESSAYS in ARPIL, 1751. 180 A COUNTRY DANCE. The HYP DOCTOR. First couple lead thro' on the infide of the fecond, and on the outfide of the third couple, the fame again to the top; cross over and turn hands 4 round with the top couple. Poetical ESSAYS in APRIL, 1751. EXTRACT from a Poem, entitled, THE BRAMIN. Writen by the Rev. Mr, DUNKIN. HAIL, Bramin, hail! whatever name boast, Encrease of glory to the British coaft; Whatever climate for thy birth contend, All human-kind acknowledge thee their friend: We feel, we feel, thro' each unlabour'd line, Religious rapture, energy divine! Those moral precepts, which appear'd before Thro' tomes voluminous, like ruder ore, Of perfecution in the facred porch, And to the just repairer of our race, Mark how he foars above the fons of rhime, Sinners attend; ye penitents be calm ; balm; And all the leffons which he would im part To human kind, the tranfcript of his heart. BLE The Firft PSALM Paraphras'd. LEST is the man, whom prudent caution guides, (fides; Far from the courts where wickedness reWho fhuns the fcorner, nor for vain applaufe Will ever join in an unrighteous caufe ; Nor hears the flatterer's pernicious praife, Which gilded poifon to the heart conveys But with a faithful and unerring mind, Has fteadfast to his Maker's laws inclin'd; And on thiem meditates by day and night, From which he draws both wisdom and delight. He's like a tree deep rooted in the ground, On fome fair mead, where fertile ftreams abound, [play Whofe fpreading branches in due time difUnfading leaves, and fruit that can't decay; But in their verdant pride fhall long remain, To form a graceful fhade along the plain : Thus fhall the righteous profper, thus encreafe, Bleft with contentment, and eternal peace. Not fo the wicked; they, before the wind, Shall be like chaff, an emblem of their mind; Inconftant, wavering, and in error loft, Blafted their hopes, and all their wishes croft. Their Poetical ESSAYS in APRIL, 1751, Their chief delights fhall prove their deadly bane, [vain. Vain are their thoughts, and all their actions Nor earth fhall long their faint remembrance He that loveth filver, shall not be satisfied with filver; Nor be that loveth abundance, with increase, Eccl. v. 10. HY still fo craving? quit the pain WHY ful strife, More than enough thou haft, for private life; Can gold bribe death, renew a lease of years? undo ; Thy farms, and rent-rolls to a stranger go, And all thy heaps of cafh diffolve like (now; Thy meager heir, when thy laft field is fold, Perhaps, will curfe thy ill perfuading gold. Remember Gripus, for thou knew'st [excel? him well, In toils and watchings, who cou'd him No man would make a penny farther go, No man was deafer to the plaints of woe; No man more skill'd in tricks of ufury, Or would with felf-indulgence lefs comply; Many hard winters, without fire, he past,' Knew no diverfion, abfent from his last ; 181. Death feiz'd him, while the awl was in [land. his hand, And his head cheming for a neighbour's Two fons he left, each had a thoufand pounds, His daughter half as much in hoarded crowns. The fons long penance bore, but now were free, And spent the hours in mirth and jollity; laugh'd! Caprice the fway of reason had suppress'd, Till all was spent, and they the publick Became fedate, rid of the mad'ning oar, And felt that peace, they never felt before. Far harder was th' unhappy daughter's lot, She married with a qhurl, a beau, a fot; Who spent her fortune, gave her many a wound, [town. And left her, with five children, on the Behold the end of Crifpin's ardent pray'r ! His days of drudg'ry! and his nights of care! Be wife, my friend! let wifdom's voice prevail, And lay to heart the moral of my tale. Witney, March 14. CRITO. On a very pretty Young Gentleman, about Eighteen, who appeared at a late Mafque rade in a Female Drefs. WHIM one day young Damon took A To walk in marquerade, So foft his air, fo (weet his look, He feem'd a beateous maid, To fee their charms outdone; And cheat our eyes no more, The SPRING, A NEW SONG. Whowers, Harbingers of birds, and flowers; Blooming May approaches near, The lowing of the herds we hear; The fat'ning lambs around us bleat, While daifies (pring beneath their feet. A noted (boemaker, Birda |