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" Injurioso ne pede proruas 



Stantem columnam." 



While others of a different turn of mind, pre- 

 ferring prudence to prayer, and choosing rather 

 to apply their shoulders to the wheel than to 

 call on Hercules, chant the more sensible song 

 of Juvenal: 

 "Nullum numen habes si sit Prudentia, quamvis 



Te facimus Fortuna deam coeloque locamus." 

 The different successes in life of these two 

 kinds of persons are well discussed in Miss 

 Edgeworth's well known and excellent story of 

 Murad and Sanadin. 



SECTION I. 



Of some Meteorological Antiquities and Super- 

 stitions, not inserted in the first edition of this 

 work, particularly those anciently attached to 

 particular Days aqd Festivals in the Kalendar, 

 which have been called Superstitio Calendaria. 



ANTIQUARIANS as well as Meteorologists 

 may be amused with the following collection of 

 superstitions, relating to particular days in the 



