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Constant asd faithful if you wish to love, 
Repose thy throbbing bosom soon shall 
oa. p» flys : 
But if to leave her, be thy rash design, 
Oh thou wilt feel as if about to die. 
LA GELOSIA. 
O! Nice pardon, pouting, ’witching girl! 
“*Jwas wrong, to call thee faithless, 
‘allow ; . 
I hate my weak suspicions and my doubts, 
I never will again suspect thy vow. 
I 
By those sweet lips? where ever new delights 
’ Are born, J solemnly, my treasure swear, 
@n whom, my sovereign destiny I read 
And hopes depend, tho’ not unmix’d with 
fear | . 
Sweet lips! which Cupid for his nest has. 
form’d 5 
' I fear no longer, but reposeon thee; ~~ 
My confidence is full, for thou hast sworn, 
To love; it ought, and it suffices me. 
©! Tam guilty, nor defend myself, 
Punish! if punishment has charms for you 
Yet some excuse ; I for my fears could frame, . 
Thyrsis adores you with a passion true. 
If tomy wonted suff’ring I return, 
And sorrow, that my Nice pangs again, 
No more for me, drest out in quiv’ring rays, 
Shines forth the God of day upon the 
plain! ; 
GS OF 
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Proceedings of Learned Soctettes. 
LEARNE 
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fOct. I, 
With you in secret- conversey when I come, ._ : 
Thyrsis-I find, your face quick blushes 
throng,  & 
‘He, paler than ‘the icy hand of death, ; 
And both confus’d, and trembling, speak — i. 
my wrong. . 
Timid, alarm’d, a hasty glance he throws, » - 
. A look he steals, and cruel Nice smiles ¢ a 
What means that unpremeditated blush ‘D 
Knows my sad heart, and what those 
lovers’ wiles. ~ 
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Thus, when I first did talk to you of love, 
You blush’d, upon your cheek that sweet. 
smile play7d 5 - 3 
Alas! unjustly doIthencomplain? —_ - 
Am I not injur’d, faithless, barb’rous 
maid 
I’ve sworn to trust, and lo! Ioubt again 
Pity, for reason totters on.her throne ; 
I swore in vain, but love o’erpowers the 
mind, 
’ Nor am I, asa perjur’d wretch, alone. 
The pilot-swears, no longer that he'll place 
His faithin Ocean’s wave;—be smooth its- 
face. 
He rushes to the storm-vexed sea again. ee 
The warrior, ne’er to buckle on his 
‘arms j= 
The brazen throat of war, his soul alarms)- 
Behold him climbing o’er hills of slain! © 
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D SOCIETIES. 
SS 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE. 
Report on the Progress of the Sciences 
from the Epoch of the French Revolu- 
tion (1789) to the Year 1808, made by 
« Comission of the Institute of France, 
by Order of the Emperor Napoleon. 
(Continued from our last.) 
7 ASTRONOMY. 
FYNHE principal elements of astro- 
fe nomy, the positions of the stars, 
the refractions, the elevation of the 
poles, the obliquity. of the ecliptic, the 
eourse of the sun, all these points are 
so intimately connected, that it is abso- 
luteiy impossible to determine any one 
of them without an accurate knowledge 
of all the others, Itchas been, by con- 
stant attention, by efforts often repeated, 
and long perseverance, that we. have 
been able to attain a precision already 
very considerable, and which will be in- 
creased by our successors.—Dr, Maske- 
lyne laboured, during 30° years, in im- 
proving a catalogue of 34° stars ;'MM. 
Zach aud Delambre, proceeding upon 
this work, corrected the ancient cata- 
logues. .MM. Cagnoli and Piazzi re- 
sumed the work front its foundation, and 
M. Lalande, the nephew, proceeding 
upon a much larger plan, has undertaken 
to devote all his power, and all his time, 
to improving the immense catalogue, for 
which he has given the -observations.— 
MM. Piazzi and Delambre determined 
the refractions, by means purely astrono= 
mical. MM. Borda and Laplace ap- 
plied analysis to this dificult problem. 
M. Biot sought in physics for the means 
of verifying the constant quantity of the ~ 
equation, and his experiments Jed him, 
at two different times, to pjecisely the ~ 
same quantity, which M. Delambre had 
obtained from astronomical observations. 
The obliquity of the ecliptic has been de- 
termined, with the greatest coincidence, 
by MM. Piazzi, Maskelyne, and De- 
lambre, by means ef three mstnuments, 
and in different climates. aly EH 
Piazzi, Delambre, and Triesnecker, 
determined, with great accuracy, the 
precession of the equinoxgs.. One of these 
astronomers, in the-construction of his 
solar tables, determined, bya variety of 
observations, the masses of Mars; Venus, _ 
and the Moom, and endeavoured to give — 
_ to the same tables a new and more con-~ 
venient form, The principal points of. 
his theory were scon confirmed, by the 
"researches 
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