CHRONOLOGY._The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac

On the 22d of August, 1818, Warren Hastings, late governor-general of

India, died; he was born in 1733. His government in India, the subject

of parliamentary impeachment, which cost the nation above a hundred

thousand pounds, and himself more than sixty thousand, is generally

admitted to have been conducted with advantage to the interests of the

native powers, and the East India company. His translation of Horace’s

celebrated ode, beginning, “Otium divos rogat,” &c., is admitted to be

superior to all others:--

The Every-day Book and Table Book, v. 1 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac · 第 634 / 982 题