W E will proceed to a confideration upon the four cording to the rules of the ancients; and as the year commences by what time the Sun has run his first decanade in Capricorn, or nearly fo, reafon advifes to purfue our ancient cuftom, and begin with Tnight. THE WINTER QUARTER. HIS quarter begins Dec 21, 1787, at near nine at The scheme of the heavens upon 's arrival on the verge of , is as follows: 8 deg. of 8 culminate, and 23 deg. fere of afcend. O, X, and 2 are at this time under the earth, or what the ancient Aftrologers were wont to call fub terra. 24 and are retrogade, which I am forry to fay are not very good prognoftics; and herein I could bring for my vouchers many respectable names of high antiquity, but I forbear as I confider the fmall limits of three fheets, and the quantity of matter therein contained. I will only fay, that in ftate affairs it denotes deep hidden myfteries and dark counfels; in private life a releafe from the miferies of this world to fome, especially the aged; and fome disease (I fay not what) as a preparatory warning to others. The rich muft die as well as the poor, the Lord is the maker of them all. I befpeak no man's death; but before the time the Sun enter Aries if some man of confequence in either the state, or one of the liberal profeffions, departs not, I am much mistaken. We fhall have in this quarter many doubts, and much news expected from abroad. Much difputation at home. May God preferve unanimity in the British councils. There is I believe a work going forward upon the earth which time muft fhew, and it is not for us but' our fucceffors to fee into the confequences. OF THE SPRING QUARTER. HIS quarter commences what time the cœleftial charioteer makes his firft entrance upon Aries, where the Ecliptic croffing the Equator he difpenfes to the world. equal day and equal night, and the fcheme of the heavens for that time you have as follows: Schæma In the above scheme wherein 12° 50' of m afcend, and 29 deg. of N culminate, we have more to look upon than to speak about. There are things which a fool cannot tell if he would, nor would a wife man if he could. He who has looked into the grand arcana of hidden myfteries, and knows the how, the where, and the when (if fuch a man there be) is a much more intelligent being than I profefs myfelf. True it is as the Poet fays, All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance direction, which thou canst not see. It behoves the true Aftrologer therefore to be modeft. The direction of God often brings about purposes far beyond the scanty rules laid down to fhort fighted man; for the wifest and best of us may truly fay, Quid enim eft familiarius homini quam hallucinari ac errare. I prefume not where I find my abilities are infufficient, nor attempt to open the door with a falfe key, left I should spoil the lock of my understanding. Æ THE SUMMER QUARTER. STAS, the Summer quarter, always commences when our luminary the Sun enters the first point of, (the place of the Sun from the Earth being then verging verging upon) making our longeft day and shortest night, and which will this year happen on Friday the 20th of June, at eight in the evening; when, according to the fcheme of the heavens for that juncture, 3 deg. of m will culminate, and 27° 47′ of afcend. The application of Sol to a conjunction with Jupiter, is a friendly token; and although the planets, like the dominions they reprefent, are not always to be feen with the moft amiable afpect, yet I hope peace and plenty, through the bleffing of the Almighty, will be the lot of our British Zion. TH THE AUTUMNAL QUARTER. HE Autumnal or Harveft Quarter commences what time the Sun toucheth the firft fcruple of the Equinoctial fign Libra, or more properly when the Earth enters upon Aries; which this year will be on the 22d day of September, at 42 min. after 9 in the morn. They who would chufe a fcheme of the heavens on that juncture, may be informed that 28° 41' of п afcend, and 23° 41′ culminate; that the D in the 12th, a cadent house, is feparating from a with, and applying to a □ with O, and a A with ; and that all the planets excepting Dand h, who are retrograde, are sub terra. ww It has been an old obfervation among the ftudious in the celeftial art, that when Saturn changes his fign (as he does this year in February) he transfers mifchief from one people to another; the verity or falfhood of which they who look in the hiftory of the prefent year will have an opportunity of determining. Thofe mifchiefs appear to be rather magnified than diminished by his retrogradation, but fi Deus nobifcum, qui contra nos. The light fhall fhine upon thofe who fit in darknefs, and wonderful changes fhall be upon the earth, before the diffolution of all things. But although the end be not yet there appear in embrio furprifing revolutions, which fhall by degrees, according to the fecret counfels of the Moft High, bring about the prophecies of the ancient Seers. Then fhall Time breathe out his finis, and diffolve in eternity. DEO SOLI GLORIA. FINI S. An ALMANACE. COMPOSED (According to the most modern Mode of Compofition) ON AVariety of Subjes, both Ancient and Modern, And for the Reader's further Entertainment, Entertainment and Improvement of the human Mind, and adapted to the meaneft Capacity. BEING A new improved Edition of a very old EPHEMERIS, for the Year of our Lord 1788 Teing the One Hundred and Twenty-5xth Edition; and Biffextile or Leap Year, 1 And the Thirty-th Year of the Now Stile in Great-Datako Written by POOR ROBIN, Knight of the BurntIsland, and a Well-Wisher to the MATHEMAT 17818 He ftill begs of Cuftomers near or afar none There's Moore's, and fome others likewife they pretend to, For the Almanacks published at Stationers-Hall. LOND Printed for the Company of STATIONERS: And fold by R. HORSFIELD, at their Hall, in Ludgate-Street. 1788. [Price gd. ftitched.] By Defire of my numerous Readers on the Sea Coafts, I infert the following: being a plain and eafy TABLE, fhewing the Time of High Water. S m.jh. m.jb. NOTE, That the Moon's Age being taken nouce of in the TABLE, you have the Time of HIGHWATER at all the undernamed Places. Queenborough, Portin outh, Southampton, Kentish- London, Tinmouth, Hartlepool, Amfterdam, Newcastle, Humber, Falmouth, Severn-mouth, it the Spurn between Scilly and Lizard, Ramsey, Datmouth, Guernsey. Torbay, St. Malo's. Plymouth, Antwerp, Hull, St. David's, Holms Bristol-Key, Weymouth-Key, Aldborough, Foul- Yarmouth-Road, Harwich, Calais Road, Dover, Hague, Peter-Port, Dublin, between Beachy and the Ifle of Wight, Yarmouth, St. Magnus's Sound, Combay, without the Cafkets in the Channels. m.h. 8 24 9 010 45.2 2 1039 30 12 15 310 48 11 33 3 18 1 15 2 64 61 51 12 1524 54 2 39 57 5 42 3 8 4810 1811 48 2 3 2 48 9 3611 13 28 10 2411 54 1 24 3 39 14 29 11 12 12 42 2 12 4 27 15 30/12 1223+5 42986 36 0 2 The foregoing Table explained. 32 531 33 30 4 15 986 234556 8 533 8 54 6 39 27 532T 9 42 7 4510 30.8. 15 TOTE, that the Moon's Age being taken notice of by the Rule N in this TABLE, you may obtain the Time of HIGH WATER at all the Places abovenamed. Obferve, When the Moon is one or fixeen Days old, it is HIGH WATER at London, Tinmouth, Hartlepool, &c. at 3'oClock, and 48 Minutes paft. Obferve the fame of the reft, which is plain to the meaneft Capacity. The Day of the Moon's Age you have in the fixth Column of every left-hand Page of the Calendar. |