The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year ..., Band 1Gray and Bowen, 1833 Vol. 1 has title: The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge ... comprising a calendar for the year; astronomical information; miscellaneous directions, hints, and statistical and other particulars. |
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... September last , actually happened at Boston , at the very second ; that of the 21st of August within three seconds , and that of the 12th of November within ten , although the last took place near the edge of the moon , and in a ...
... September last , actually happened at Boston , at the very second ; that of the 21st of August within three seconds , and that of the 12th of November within ten , although the last took place near the edge of the moon , and in a ...
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... September 15th , 17th , and 18th . December 15th , 17th , and 18th . MOVABLE Septuagesima Sunday , Feb. 7 . Quinq . or Shrove Sunday , Feb. 21 . Ash Wed. or 1st day of Lent , Feb. 24 . Mid - Lent Sunday , March 21 . Palm Sunday , April ...
... September 15th , 17th , and 18th . December 15th , 17th , and 18th . MOVABLE Septuagesima Sunday , Feb. 7 . Quinq . or Shrove Sunday , Feb. 21 . Ash Wed. or 1st day of Lent , Feb. 24 . Mid - Lent Sunday , March 21 . Palm Sunday , April ...
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... September 2 , the Moon totally eclipsed . Beginning of the general eclipse Beginning of total darkness Middle of the eclipse Moon rises eclipsed . End of total darkness End of the general eclipse Boston . N. York . Wash'n . Charles'n ...
... September 2 , the Moon totally eclipsed . Beginning of the general eclipse Beginning of total darkness Middle of the eclipse Moon rises eclipsed . End of total darkness End of the general eclipse Boston . N. York . Wash'n . Charles'n ...
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... September 3. Occultation of p . Immersion Emersion October 4. Occultation of f 8 . Immersion Emersion • 35 10 50 { centre . 2h . 38m . 59s . M. S 4 ' 9 " South of the 3 43 55 4 59 centré . 9h . 44m . 58s . A. ( 15 ' 0 " 10 6 40 15 51 ...
... September 3. Occultation of p . Immersion Emersion October 4. Occultation of f 8 . Immersion Emersion • 35 10 50 { centre . 2h . 38m . 59s . M. S 4 ' 9 " South of the 3 43 55 4 59 centré . 9h . 44m . 58s . A. ( 15 ' 0 " 10 6 40 15 51 ...
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... September , then in the evening to the end of the year . The planet Vesta will be visible in the morning to the 8th of October , then in the evening . The planet Pallas will be visible in the morning to the 27th of April , then in the ...
... September , then in the evening to the end of the year . The planet Vesta will be visible in the morning to the 8th of October , then in the evening . The planet Pallas will be visible in the morning to the 27th of April , then in the ...
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19th day 1st day Aldebaran Almanac Amount Apogee appears April astronomers Bank Bay of Fundy Boston Britain Canal Catholic centre Chargé d'Affaires Charleston Clover comet Corn Debt December Delaware difference dist distance dominical letter earth Easter eclipse Equat Expenditures February fees France Full Moon Fund Georgia h. m. Dec High water Immersion Emersion Island January John July June Jupiter Latitude Longitude Mahometan March Mars Maryland Massachusetts Mercury meridian miles Minister Plenipotentiary month Moon's Equatorial Parallax motion noon at Greenwich North observed Occultation Ohio orbit Orleans Parallax Parallax and Horizon Pennsylvania Perigee perihelion period PHENOMENA AND OBSER planets Quarter Receipts revolution Rhode Island rises and sets Saturn Schools season Semidiameter in seconds Sept South Carolina Southing and Declination star Stock sun and moon Sun's Moon's Sunday after Trinity tides Total Treasury United Uranus Virginia Washington Wheat William York
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Seite 111 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Seite 114 - ... to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; " and 11 Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. "If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. • The Indies have not made...
Seite 112 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Seite 113 - If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself . A little neglect may breed great mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe naiL
Seite 116 - The day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term, which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extremely short. Time will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as his shoulders. Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Seite 116 - At present, perhaps, you may think yourself in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury; but — For age and want, save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Seite 117 - I was conscious that not a tenth part of the wisdom was my own which he ascribed to me, but rather the gleanings that I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer. Reader, if thou 32 wilt do the same, thy profit will be as great as mine.
Seite 116 - Would you not say that you are free, have a right to dress as you please, and that such an edict would be a breach of your privileges and such a government tyrannical? And yet you are about to put yourself under such tyranny, when you run in debt for such dress.
Seite 117 - Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon ; for the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly.
Seite 86 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.