 | 1797 - 752 pages
...or at leaft the day on which the Sqn entered Taurus, has been immemorially kept as a facred feftival from the creation of the earth and man, and was originally intended as a memorial of that aufpicious period, and that momentous event. T z " Independent " Independent, however, of any particular... | |
 | Henry DIMOCK - 1806 - 284 pages
...Мау~1}ау, от at least the 'day* on- which' Hie' sun "entered Taitnts, has been immemurially kept a« a sacred festival from the creation of the earth and...Independent, however, of any particular allusion to that pri> înœval event, which, after «11, is but conjecture, the bail being in the east, the universal... | |
 | Ephraim George Squier - History - 1851 - 294 pages
...have little doubt that May -day, or at least the day when the Sun entered Taurus, has been immemorably kept as a sacred festival, from the creation of the...intended as a memorial of that auspicious period and momentous event !"t in the 16th verse of the third chapter of St. Luke : " John answered saying, I... | |
 | Charles Hardwick - England - 1872 - 336 pages
...therefore, that May-day, or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus, has been immemorably kept as a sacred festival from the creation of the...of that auspicious period and. that momentous event On the general devotion of the ancients to the worship of the bull I have had frequent occasion to... | |
 | Measurement - 1885 - 622 pages
...whether or not they marked that event. Maurice says " I have little doubt that May-day, or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus, has been...and man, and was originally intended as a memorial ofthat momentous event." Although the festival of May-day is still observed, there is this fact, however,... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Ireland - 1898 - 692 pages
...therefore," says he, "that Mayday, or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus, has been immcmorially kept as a sacred festival from the creation of the earth and man, originally intended as a memorial of that auspicious period and that momentous event." It is with extreme... | |
 | William Tyler Olcott - Constellations - 1911 - 612 pages
...is a remnant of this festival time, and Maurice says, 'I have little doubt that May Day or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus has been immemorially...intended as a memorial of that auspicious period and momentous event'." In the Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, and Coptic the word for bull means "coming" or "who... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Art - 2002 - 556 pages
...doubt, therefore," says he, " that May-day, or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus, IMS been immemorially kept as a sacred festival, from the creation of the earth and man, originally intended as a memorial of that auspicious period, and that momentous event" It is with extreme... | |
 | 1883 - 652 pages
...whether or not they marked that event. Maurice says, ' I have little doubt that May-day, or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus, has been...intended as a memorial of that auspicious period and momentous event.' "Although the festival of May-day is still observed, it has long been in memory of... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Ireland - 1834 - 578 pages
...position deserves to be remarked. " I have little, doubt, therefore," says he, " that May-day, or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus, has been...festival, from the creation of the earth and man, originally intended as a memorial of that auspicious period, and that momentous event" It is with extreme... | |
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I have little doubt, therefore" says he, "that Mayday, or at least the day on which the sun entered Taurus, has been immemorially kept as a sacred festival from the creation of the earth and man, originally intended as a memorial of that auspicious period... 