D A Y. 
his writngs to the ufage of his country. The clock in- 
vented by Ctefibius (a celebrated mechanic of Alexandria, 
who lived 136 years i Carift) was fo contrived as to 
lengthen or-fhorten the hours. About the ‘thirteenth cer- 
tury, a more hidaal divifion of the day into equal hours was 
introduced into Italy. The civil day was made to begin 
about the clofe of evening twilight, and 24 equal hours are 
counted i deel on to the fame time on the following even- 
in mode is continued in many parts of Germany and 
Italy to is day. e clocks are ufually only ieee tos 
and ft ae fix, making four revolutions i in one da ays This me 
hod! ai 
life occur if perpetually at a different hour, fo that a perfon 
muft confult an almanac to know the hour of dinner. The 
accumulated error which the clocks are liable to, from this 
unfkilful mode of ube ae a : cotretted when it amounts 
to a quarter of an hour. e the people to regulate 
their domeftic concerns, a calender § is publifhed, which an- 
nounces, for inftance, that from the 16t 
fo long been prac 
‘gland, and the other enlightened countries of the 
Europe. 
The only difference that at prefent fubfits in England 
and France relative to the divifion of the day is, that with 
reckon by mean time. In France they ufe folar time. 
Our clocks fometimes ftrike twelve when the fun is more 
rom i e Bi ane In Franc 
north of 
t the ) 
rench aftronomers ~~ ey propoted, that the 
ae re fhould commence with the civil day at 
ight. 
ch of their ow moft 
cir pecu.iar au aoaies.. Thos the third rh of the — 
the Romans to Mars, was named from 
Ta ay Danifh and Swedith lan. 
guage it is ‘Lyrfdag, from whence our Tuefday. Tyr was 
an inferior deity, but prefided over battles: and Tacitus ren- 
ders the name Tyr by that of Mars, oe makes him inferior 
to Odin, whom he defcribes under the me of Mercur 
i 
hurfday is the day of the gre 
i se the Nowhem pias 
e derive our Frida , bears 
a {till greater refemblance to Veta 3 and fo ftriking is the 
analogy, that fome authors have confidered it as more than 
probable that the mythology of the barbarous nations of 
the North had a common origin with that of the Greeks 
and Romans. 
y, THomAs, in LCA an ius writer of con- 
fiderable merit, was at London in 1748. His father 
the ae aine rom dashes ieee to Corpus- 
Chrifti college, Oxford. 765, he entered at the Middle 
Temple, and ftudied the ee Tani to be called to the 
r. After this he fpent fome yeara in foreign travel, 
ather with a view of ftudying men and manners, than of 
examining the countries ‘n a topographical view. The fruit 
of his refearches into the e= ndition of his fellow creatures, 
excited in him fentiments of wretchednefs bordering upo 
ome the languor into which he w 
the determined foe ve ny in e fhape, and the 
zealous advocate = ee n of therig fmen. In 1778, 
married Mi e 
a 
o the arate of Mr. Day. He refided, firft at S 
ford Abbots in Effex, and afterwards he took 
Chertfey in Sines in which he employed many of the 
oe arte poor in experimental proceffes. About the year 
1780, he became the public opponent to the American war, 
the principal of ou te had always abhorred; and he 
took a zealous part with thofe who were contending for pars 
e confidered as the foundation 
v able o bee 
exiftence of the country. t this period, he publi 
_~ politica! pieces in profe and ia verfe, all of w 
anonymous, but they pointed out the author as an ardent 
friend to civil liberty, and as abhorrent to the principles of 
flavery in every quarter ofthe globe. But Mr. Day’s name will 
e long dear to the young, and to thofe who have the 
cies of ee aed upon them, by his *¢ Firftory 
of Sandford Lig aa in: £ vo oo . 
i ack, ”? in one final 
rmer ovatelly inculcates all re saul 
virtues of courage, activity, temperance, independence, and 
generofity, and contains many ufefu) inftruétions in the 
principles of fcience. The moral of the flory of Little 
Jack, which is entertaining, and difplays the good eifects of 
adtivity, induftry, aaa a honellys | . that it Is of very 
little confequence how the world, ie 
vided he behaves i fer railcars: a duty when he i 
be 
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it. 
In the midft of his endeavours to do good, and 2 pre- 
mote the fee of his fellow creaturee, Mr. Day was cut 
off by an unfortunate accident. he — met eee his 
own to his mother’s houfe, on Sept. 28, 1789, he was 
killed es a fall from his horfe, being oly in the 42d year 
of his a 
In gate life Mr. Day was a faithful and tender huf- 
band, an affectionate fon, and a generous and eel ige izing 
frien t 
choice of hi 
not, how 
but becaufe he had obferved that a faftidiou{nefs of appetite 
is often produdtive of evil confequences. His mode of 
travelling was as fimple and unexpenfive as poffible; the 
reafon he affigned for which was, that the lefs he fpent 
upon himfelf, the more he could fen for the wants of his 
fellow | creatures. In confequence of the wide Hei of his 
chari in which it was beftow- 
ed, te of his beneficent ations are now totally pukonea. 
Few peas from him empty-handed, 
oO give But the private chara 
fhall be given i in the words of his widow: ‘¢ oT 
ing firmnefs, independence, and difintereftednefs of Mr. 
Day’s character, in an age of fuch venality, corruption, and 
effeminacy as the prefent, might furely be confidered as a 
ea  dasearacacae of all human beings, was the 
moft intimately acquainted with the extraordinary and in 
sabable aieelty of his life and manners, I do not feruple 
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