Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the AlmanackSherwood, Gilbert and Piper, 1831 - Almanacs, English |
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... England till the time of Edward VI . when it was forbade by Archbishop Cranmer . The Jewish law of purification ordered all women who were delivered of a male child , to separate them- selves from the public congregation for forty days ...
... England till the time of Edward VI . when it was forbade by Archbishop Cranmer . The Jewish law of purification ordered all women who were delivered of a male child , to separate them- selves from the public congregation for forty days ...
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... England , composed some verses in honour of this festival ; and other allusions are made to it by early writers , sufficient to prove the origin of the custom to be long anterior to the period stated . Some have asserted this to have ...
... England , composed some verses in honour of this festival ; and other allusions are made to it by early writers , sufficient to prove the origin of the custom to be long anterior to the period stated . Some have asserted this to have ...
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... England long before this period . Carpenter in his Glossary , under the date 1355 , men- tions a petition of the scholars of Ramera to their master , soliciting him to " give them a cock , " which they affirm , " their said master owed ...
... England long before this period . Carpenter in his Glossary , under the date 1355 , men- tions a petition of the scholars of Ramera to their master , soliciting him to " give them a cock , " which they affirm , " their said master owed ...
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... England , Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten's Ee'n or Fasting's Eve , from the succeeding day being the first of the Lenten fast . 16. ASH WEDNESDAY . This is the first day of Lent , on which , in the Romish church , the priests heard the ...
... England , Shrove Tuesday is called Fasten's Ee'n or Fasting's Eve , from the succeeding day being the first of the Lenten fast . 16. ASH WEDNESDAY . This is the first day of Lent , on which , in the Romish church , the priests heard the ...
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... England , where he received a pension from government . When Bonaparte assumed the consulate he went back to France ; but taking scarcely any part in public affairs , he lived much in retirement , devoting himself to literature and the ...
... England , where he received a pension from government . When Bonaparte assumed the consulate he went back to France ; but taking scarcely any part in public affairs , he lived much in retirement , devoting himself to literature and the ...
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ÆTAT afternoon afterwards Aldebaran aphelion appears April Argo Navis Asteroids atmosphere axis beautiful birds Bishop blue born bright called Canis Minor Capricornus Ceres Cetus Christian Christmas church clouds comet conjunction custom dark death degree died difference of latitude disc double star Duke early earth eclipse Emperor England festival Fixed Stars flowers France glory green hath heart heavens honor inferior conjunction Juno Jupiter King light limb Lord lunar magnitude Mars meridian month moon morning motion nature nebula night North declination o'er observed occultation orbit period Phases of Venus Pisces planet Quarter Queen remarkable Right ascension rising Rome round Sagittarius Saint satellite Saturn Saxon says season seen Shrove Tuesday solar spot summer sun's Sunday sweet Taurus Telescopic Objects thee thou throne Trans Transits and Meridional Uranus Ursa Major Valentine Virgin Virgo visible Zodiac
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Page 87 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth and youth and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 196 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them : and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.
Page 165 - This story shall the good man teach his son, And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...
Page 195 - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 210 - Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest...
Page 75 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 45 - We also wrote our lovers' names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay, and put them into water ; and the first that rose up was to be our valentine. Would you think it ? — Mr Blossom was my man. I lay abed and shut my eyes all the morning, till he came to our house ; for I would not have seen another man before him for all the world.
Page 252 - Between two worlds life hovers like a star, 'Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge. How little do we know that which we are ! How less what we may be...
Page 164 - This day is call'd the feast of Crispian : He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Page 165 - And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that shall live this day, and see old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours, And say, "To-morrow is Saint Crispian." Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars, And say "These wounds I had on Crispin's day.