Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702-1835

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Side 15 - Henry I, Stephen, Henry II, Richard I, John, Henry III, Ed-ward I, Edward II, Edward III, Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V...
Side 3 - Imprints a different bias, and to each Decrees its province in the common toil. To some she taught the fabric of the sphere, The changeful moon, the circuit of the stars, The golden zones of heaven...
Side 2 - He had no sooner done speaking, but behold a miracle! The fish, as though they had been endued with reason, bowed down their heads with all the marks of a profound humility and devotion, moving their bodies up and down with a kind of fondness, as approving what had been spoken by the blessed father St. Antonio.
Side 3 - Day. — The Exchequer opens eight days before any term begins, except Trinity, before which it opens but four days. Note.
Side 3 - And all the fair variety of things. But not alike to every mortal eye Is this great fcene unveil'd. For fince the claims...
Side 9 - India, &c. which become hotter, and reflect more heat than the seas beyond the equator, which the snn has left; the winds, therefore, instead of blowing from thence to the parts under the equator, blow the contrary way ; and, when the sun leaves those countries, and draws near the other tropic, the. winds turn about, and blow on the opposite point of the compass.
Side 4 - A TABLE of the Rifing, Southing, and Setting of the Pleiades, or Seven Stars, for every 5th Day in the Year, of excellent Ufe to find the Hour of the Night, Month | Rife &Daysh.
Side 21 - And it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it, by the severe rules of truth and good reason; whereby it appears that it consists in something that is not perfectly conformable to them.
Side 7 - In which are contained all things fitting for such a work, as a Table of Terms and their returns, the full changes and quarters of the Moon, the rising, southing and setting of the Seven Stars, and other fixed stars of note ; the Moon's age, and a Tide Table fitted to the same ; the Rising and Setting of the Sun ; the Rising, Southing and Setting of the Moon , .Mutual Aspects, Monthly Observations, and many other things useful and profitable.
Side 5 - The fixed Stars all rife, fouth, and fet about four Minutes fooner every Night than they did the Night before ; this confidered, the...

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