The Every-day Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, & Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanack; Including Accounts of the Weather, Rules for Health and Conduct, Remarkable and Important Anecdotes, Facts, and Notices, in Chronology, Antiquities, Topography, Biography, Natural History, Art, Science, and General Literature; Derived from the Most Authentic Sources, and Valuable Original Communications, with Poetical Elucidations, for Daily Use and Diversion, Volume 2Gale Research Company, 1967 - Days |
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... month will be given a state of the weather , in Mr. Howard's own words : and thus we begin . JANUARY WEATHER The Sun in the middle of this month continues about 8 h . 20 m . above the hori- • Sayers . zon . The Temperature rises in the ...
... month will be given a state of the weather , in Mr. Howard's own words : and thus we begin . JANUARY WEATHER The Sun in the middle of this month continues about 8 h . 20 m . above the hori- • Sayers . zon . The Temperature rises in the ...
Page 481
... month that we possess - the most juvenile of the months , and the most feminine- the sweetest month of all the year ; partly because it ushers in the May , and partly for its own sake , so far as any thing can be valuable without ...
... month that we possess - the most juvenile of the months , and the most feminine- the sweetest month of all the year ; partly because it ushers in the May , and partly for its own sake , so far as any thing can be valuable without ...
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... month ) Gen- ver , ( an ancient corruption of its common name , January , ) or the cold air month . FEBRUARY , Hu - evral , or the whirling month . MARCH , Mis Merh , or the horse month ; also , Meurz , or Merk , a corruption of March ...
... month ) Gen- ver , ( an ancient corruption of its common name , January , ) or the cold air month . FEBRUARY , Hu - evral , or the whirling month . MARCH , Mis Merh , or the horse month ; also , Meurz , or Merk , a corruption of March ...
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