I have come to look for the tree-swallows as regularly on the 1st of April, as for the oriole on the 10th of May, as if these were calendar events of real importance.
Though generally the result of a vicious impulse or intention, there is hardly a crime in the calendar that might not be committed by a person acting from a higher moral standard than that set by the law.
The walls of some of the cells are decorated with a chromolithograph, such as is given to customers as a calendar by many shopkeepers at the New Year time.
Rule for determining Easter Day of the Antegregorian Calendar in any year of the old style.
The way of using the table is as follows: Take the epact of the required year, and find it in the first or last column of the first table, in line with it are seen the calendar days of new and full moon.
Looking at the Cambridge Calendar to verify the fact that Copley was an undergraduate at the time, I find that there are but two other men in the list of honors of his year whose names are now widely remembered.
He wrote his Liber de paschate in 525, and it was in this work that the Christian era was first used forcalendar purposes.
When the Calendar was reformed, the calendar new moons were four days in advance of the mean moon of the heavens: so that, for instance, calendar full moon on the 18th usually meant real full moon on the 14th.
From this it appears that Clavius continued the Calendar of his predecessors in the choice of the fourteenth day of the moon.
As we cannot enter at full length into the explanation, we must content ourselves with giving a set of rules, independent of tables, by which the reader may find Easter for himself in any year, either by the old Calendar or the new.
The calendar lunation being 29½ days, the middle day is the fifteenth day, and this is and was reckoned as the day of the full moon.
Reasons for Repealing the Acts pass'd in Virginia and Maryland relating to Ports and Towns," Calendar of Virginia State Papers and Other Manuscripts, edit.
There was a pretty triumph for Eve on the day when David came in to see what she was doing, and praised the idea, and thought the calendar an excellent stroke of business.
The calendar was, in its way, a masterpiece; but Eve was obliged to sell it for less than a halfpenny, for the Cointets were supplying hawkers at the rate of three centimes per copy.
David went into the workshop after dinner, and saw that the calendar should have been set up in a week.
It is certainly a great consolation that our father chose our names from the poems and the stars and the calendar of aristocratic saints, instead of from the lowly Cotta pedigree.