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The Perennial Calendar, And Companion To The Almanac - Illustrating The Events Of Every Day In The Year (1824) (Paperback)
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The Perennial Calendar, And Companion To The Almanac - Illustrating The Events Of Every Day In The Year (1824) (Paperback)
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date:
1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original.
It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.
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than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. Ax Album in the
form of a Journal, divided into separate Spaces for each Day in the
Year, and lying open in the Library of a then Student of one of the
Universities, wherein he and some of his College Friends were in
the Habit of recording something every Night as a Memorandum of the
foregoing Day, was the Nucleus on which the present Calendar has
been formed. Trifling as this mode of composing a Work may appear,
yet it was found to be of great Use and Advantage to the Compiler,
as a means of fixing in the Memory a vast number of historical
Facts and their respective Dates, which would otherwise have been
forgotten among the miscellaneous Objects of classical and
professional Study. The original Subjects at first entered into
this Diary were the Astronomical Events and the Religious Fasts and
Festivals recorded in the modern Calendars of Europe, with the
Names of the Saints celebrated each Day, the Commencement of
particular Terms, and the Ceremonies of the different Courts,
Churches, and People of Christendom. While several Years
successively revolved, something new on the Recurrence of each Day
was added, particularly on Subjects of Natural History, and Popular
Antiquities; and thus the Plants which were usually in flower, the
particular Animals which appeared, the Migratory Birds which
arrived, and the several Games, Sports, Superstitions, and
Ceremonies of the common People, belonging to each Day, Month, or
Season, were successively added by the Editor and his Friends, as a
Matter of Amusement to themselves, as well as for the memorial
Purposes already described. The Explanation of the...
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