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Page 108 - Parliament, and omit the faid eleven nominal days; which being approved by the yearly meeting, the report was communicated to the quarterly and monthly meetings of " Friends " in Great Britain, Ireland, and America, and was univerfally adopted by them. The name of the week-day is not ufed by the "Friends;" but each day is called by its proper number in the following order : — I ft day, Sunday.
Page x - In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
Page 282 - In witnefs whereof we have caufed thefe our letters " to be made Patent : Witnefle ourfelfe at our Tower of London " the tenth day of Julie, in the firft year of our Reigne.
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Page 116 - Easter, for this difference also has been made up by the assistance of your prayers : so that all the brethren in the East, who formerly celebrated this festival at the same time as the Jews, will in future conform to the Romans and to us, and to all who have of old observed our manner of celebrating Easter.
Page 186 - Olympus ; on the fouth by the river Alpheus ; and on the weft by the Cladeus, which flows into the Alpheus. Olympia does not appear to have been a town, but rather a collection of temples and public buildings. The origin of the Olympic games is buried in obfcurity. The legends of the Elean priefts attribute the inftitution of the feftival to the Idaean Heracles. According to their account, Rhea committed her new-born Zeus to the * Smith's " Diftionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,
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Page 189 - Olympiad was luni-folar, and contained 12 or 13 months, the names of which varied in the different ftates of Greece. The months confifted of 30 and 29 days alternately ; and the fhort year confequently contained 354 days, while the intercalary year having an extra month of 30 days, had 384 days. In Europe no era was fo generally ufed in literature, as the era of the Olympiads ; and as the Olympic games were celebrated 293 times, we have 293 Olympic cycles, ie 1172 years, of which 776 fall before...
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