To alter fate, and providence to mend. And gives us freedom from each fool and knave, JOSEPH LATHROP Was born at Norwich in Connecticut, October 20th, 1731, and graduated at Yale College in 1754, soon after which he was settled in the ministry at Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1793 he was chosen Professor of Theology in Yale College, but declined the office. He died December 31st, 1820, in his 90th year. Several volumes of his sermons have been published. THE EXISTENCE OF A DEITY. WHEN I lift up my wond'ring eyes, The sun by day with glorious light, The lightning's blaze, the thunder's roar, The forest and the grassy mead, Where wild beasts roam, or tame ones feed, Corn, springing from the lifeless clod, My body form'd with nicest art, The various passions of the mind, A God so great and always near, My care shall be, his sacred will STEPHEN SEWALL Was born at York in Maine, in 1734, and studied at Harvard College, where he received a degree in 1761. The following year he was appointed teacher, and afterward Professor of Hebrew in that institution. He retained this office with the reputation of the most accomplished classical scholar in the country, till 1785. He died in 1804. He was the author of a Hebrew Grammar, and a Chaldee and English Dictionary; the last is still in manuscript. Professor Sewall was one of the authors of the Pietas et Gratulatio Collegii Cantabrigiensis, which we have mentioned in the life of Dr Church. Many of the Greek and Latin verses are by him, and two of the compositions in English. ON THE DEATH OF GEORGE II. Or cypress deign, celestial muse, to sing; On Albion's sadden'd shore: He's gone-Britannia's royal chief! From the farthest orient floods To Hesperia's savage woods, Nor wonder; all an ample share Partook, through boundless climes, of his paternal care. Whate'er the muse's mournful lays can do, Religion, heaven-born fair, In her own native air, Refulgent shone in golden day: Virtue, science, liberty, Blooming sisters, wreathed with bays, Grateful sung their patron's praise: Commerce, o'er the broad-back'd sea, Extending far on floating isles, Imported India's wealth, and rich Peruvian spoils. Let Rome her Julius and Octavius boast; What both at Rome, George was on Albion's coast. Majestic, ever wore; Long urged, and then the laurel bough. Vict'ries more than Julius won, And exploits, before undone, George the Hero, shall rehearse: While softer notes each tuneful swain Shall breathe from oaten pipe, of George's peaceful reign. But, ah! while on the glorious past we dwell, -Shall tears forbear to flow? Or cease to heave the deep-fetch'd sigh? Sighs, to whisp'ring winds complain; Waft, and tell the mournful theme. But what, alas! can tears or sighs? What could, has ceased to be; the spirit mounts the skies. With sympathetic wo, thy noontide ray, Phœbus, suspend; ye clouds, obscure the day; Her face let Cynthia veil, Thick darkness spread her wing, And the night-raven sing, While Britons their sad fate bewail. Sacred flood, whose crystal tide, Gently gliding, rolls adown Fast by, once, the blissful town, Swell high, and tell the vocal shore And jovial mariner, their glory's now no more! But stop, my plaintive muse: lo! from the skies From black and dismal shades, Emerging, with new lustre shone. In the forehead of the east, Sighing, now, and tears are ceased: Still George survives; his virtues shine In him, who sprung alike from Brunswick's royal line. JAMES BOWDOIN Was born in Boston in 1727. He received his education at Harvard College, and at an early period of life was appointed to many public offices of importance. In 1775 he became President of the Council of Massachusetts, and remained in that station till the adoption of the State Constitution in 1780. He was President of the Convention which formed the constitution of Massachusetts, and in 1785 and 1786, was Governor of the State. He died in 1790. He was a man of extensive literary attainments, and was honored with a Doctor's degree from several European universities, and created a member of the Royal Societies of London and Dublin. He wrote much on philosophical subjects, and was a principal agent in forming the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston. He was the first President of this institution, and bequeathed it a valuable legacy. Among his various pursuits he also cultivated poetry. He contributed to the Pietas et Gratulatio, but his principal work of this kind is an enlarged paraphrase of The Economy of Human Life, published at Boston in 1759. He had a respectable talent as a versifier, though his poetry displays little inventive faculty. WOMAN. NATURE, fair creature! when she form'd thy mind, |