Syncellus,she lived before Christ2177,
Patavius,she lived before Christ2060,
Helvicus,she lived before Christ2248,
Eusebius,she lived before Christ1984,
Mr. Jackson,she lived before Christ1964,
Archbishop Usher,she lived before Christ1215,
Philo-Biblius from Sanconiathon,she lived before Christ1200,
Herodotusshe lived about before Christ713.

The book of Jasher, said to have been preserved from the deluge by Noah, but since lost, was extant in the time of Joshua, and in the time of David. Mr. Bryant thinks, however, very justly, that the ten tables of stone were the first written characters. The book of Jasher is mentioned Joshua x. 13, and 2 Samuel i. 18.


Andrè Chenier, imprisoned during the French Revolution, began thus some lines on his unhappy situation,

Peut-être avant que l'heure en cercle promenée
Ait posè sur l'email brillant
Dans les soixante pas ou sa route est bornèe
Son pied sonore et vigilant,
Le sommeil du tombeau pressera ma paupiere—

At this instant Andrè Chenier was interrupted by the officials of the guillotine.


Archbishop Usher, in a MS. of St. Patrick's life, said to have been found at Louvain as an original of a very remote date, detected several entire passages purloined from his own writings.