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Page 37 - Midsummer Day. — The Exchequer opens eight days before any term begins, except Trinity, before which it opens but four days.
Page 41 - In which are contained all things fitting for such a work, as a Table of Terms and their returns, the full changes and quarters of the Moon, the rising, southing and setting of the Seven Stars, and other fixed stars of note ; the Moon's age, and a Tide Table fitted to the same ; the Rising and Setting of the Sun ; the Rising, Southing and Setting of the Moon , .Mutual Aspects, Monthly Observations, and many other things useful and profitable.
Page 35 - For the YEAR of our LORD 1795. Being the Third after BISSEXTILE, or LEAP-YEAR. Wherein are contained The Heliocentrick and Geocentrick Places of the Planets, the ECLIPSES of the Lnmimries, and other remarkable PHENOMENA that will happen this Year.
Page 35 - Southing, and Setting of the Planets and fixed Stars throughout the Year ; whereby may be known the exact Hour of the Night at all Times, when either the Moon or Stars are feen. . Calculated according to / rt, and referred- to the' Horizon of the ancient and renowned BoroughTown of Stamford (formerly a famous Univeifity) whofe Latitude is 52 Ueg.
Page 39 - II. To find the Hour of the Night by the Shadow of the Moon on a Sun-Dial.
Page 18 - That fix'd and firm they may their station keep, And the fierce shocks of furious winds defy, With all the outrage of inclement sky. But the base brier and the noble vine Their arms around their stronger neighbour twine . The creeping ivy, to prevent its fall, Clings with its fibrous grapples to the wall.
Page 37 - On the Morrow of All Souls - Nov. 3 On the Morrow of St. Martin - 1* In Eight Days of St. Martin - - 18 I From the Day of St.
Page 35 - LUNATIONS ; the Riling and Setting of the Sun, Moon, and Planets, &c. Adapted to the Meridian and Latitude of the Royal Obfervatory of GREENWICH. To which are added, Several ufeful TABLES : As, a TABLE of the Sun's femi-diurnal Arcs, by which the Time...