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 1Gale Research Company, 1967 |
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... Months, & Seasons, and William Hone. various etymologies ; but the most pro- bable one derives it from Juno , in honour of whom a festival was celebrated at the beginning of the month . " He says , " it is now complete summer ...
... Months, & Seasons, and William Hone. various etymologies ; but the most pro- bable one derives it from Juno , in honour of whom a festival was celebrated at the beginning of the month . " He says , " it is now complete summer ...
Pagina 891
... month . July was called by the Saxons hen- monath , which probably expressed the meaning of the German word hain , signi- fying wood or trees ; and hence hen- monath might mean foliage month . They likewise called it heymonath , or hay- ...
... month . July was called by the Saxons hen- monath , which probably expressed the meaning of the German word hain , signi- fying wood or trees ; and hence hen- monath might mean foliage month . They likewise called it heymonath , or hay- ...
Pagina 1059
... month of the year . It was called Sextilis by the Romans , from its being the sixth month in their calendar , until the senate complimented the emperor Augustus by naming it after him , and through them it is by us denom- inated August ...
... month of the year . It was called Sextilis by the Romans , from its being the sixth month in their calendar , until the senate complimented the emperor Augustus by naming it after him , and through them it is by us denom- inated August ...
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