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Updated: October 29, 2025
Seneca sometimes speaks as a Stoic, and denies immortality: sometimes he admits it as an ennobling belief; sometimes he declares it to be his own conviction, and uses the beautiful expression, so common in Christian literature, that the day of death is the birth-day of eternity. The coincidence, if it is nothing more than a coincidence, is marvellous.
To get these burdens off his shoulders, it took twelve months longer, and then he was nearly thirty years of age. "Thirty years old!" said he to himself on his thirtieth birth-day. "Can it be possible? Long before this I ought to have been doing a flourishing business, and here I am, nothing but a bank-clerk, with the prospect of never rising a step higher as long as I live.
I spent fourteen days here, and was present at the birth-day festivities of the duchess, which lasted three days; among these festivities was racing, and the town and the castle were filled with people. Happy domestic life is like a beautiful summer's evening; the heart is filled with peace; and everything around derives a peculiar glory.
II. Discussion respecting the birth-day of the subject of these memorials, III. Notices of the Earl of Peterborough, and of Dean Berkeley, IV. Reference to the debates in Parliament in which Oglethorpe took a part, V. Prison-visiting Committee, VI. Release of insolvent debtors, VII. Sir Thomas Lombe's mill for winding silk, VIII. Case of Captain Porteous, IX. Trustees for settling Georgia,
Did you never hear how many new performers enter on this ha! ha! ha! it's impossible to speak gravely of it on this preposterous and ridiculous business called Life, every minute? 'No, father! 'No, not you, of course; you're a woman almost, said the Doctor. 'By-the-by, and he looked into the pretty face, still close to his, 'I suppose it's YOUR birth-day. 'No!
As chance would have it, the day of this success was the emperor's birth-day. The army had no idea of celebrating it. In the disposition of the men and of the place, there was nothing that harmonized with such a celebration; empty acclamations would have been lost amid those vast deserts. In our situation, there was no other festival than the day of a complete victory.
One of the court members observing that it would be irregular to receive a petition while the house was in a grand committee, a motion was made that the chairman should leave the chair; but this being carried in the negative, the debate was resumed, and the majority agreed to the following resolutions: That the heads of the university, and mayor of the city, neglected to make public rejoicings on the prince's birth-day; that the officers having met to celebrate that day, the house in which they had assembled was assaulted, and the windows were broken by the rabble; that this assault was the beginning and occasion of the riots that ensued.
"On cousin Hsueeh P'an's birth-day," he remarked, "I happened again to be unwell, so not only did I not send him any presents, but I failed to go and knock my head before him. Yet cousin knows nothing about my having been ill, and it will seem to him that I had no wish to go, and that I brought forward excuses so as to avoid paying him a visit.
Now both these dreams had the same several events that Joseph foretold they should have, and this to both the parties; for on the third day before mentioned, when the king solemnized his birth-day, he crucified the chief baker, but set the butler free from his bonds, and restored him to his former ministration.
Not only were toast and ale given to all my friends and neighbours, but my servants also had such a junketing as they will never forget. My birth-day, the 6th of November, I continued to celebrate as my father had done before his death; and I will here take leave to relate in what way I celebrated that event.
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