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VENERABLE BEDE'S MENTAL ALMANAC.
If our own ancient British sage, the Venerable Bede, could rise up from the dust of eleven centuries, he might find us, notwithstanding all our astounding improvements, in a worse position, in one respect at least, than when he left us; and as the subject would be one in which he was well versed, it would indubitably attract his attention.
He might then set about teaching us from his own writings a mental resource, far superior to any similar device practised by ourselves, by which the day of the week belonging to any day of the month, in any year of the Christian era, might easily and speedily be found.