 | Luke Howard - Clouds - 1818 - 774 pages
...part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, 1 may now state that in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstance. Swithin or Swithum, Bishop of... | |
 | Luke Howard - London (England) - 1820 - 408 pages
...part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, 1 may now state that in a majority of our summers, a showery period, which with some latitude as to time and local circumstanees may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time... | |
 | 1821 - 536 pages
...notion will be found fallacious, if put to the test of experience at any one station in our island; yet that, " in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for 40 days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition." The fact itself is accounted for... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our rummers, a showery period, which, with some latitude as to...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, Bishop of... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may how state, that in a majority of our sumtners, tlry as to mark distinctly its commencetalent. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, bishop of... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our summers, a showery peí iod, the other for a palace, where will be seen fix aneéis ringing of bells. Likewise Hie tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, bishop of... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Science - 1827 - 234 pages
...subject, a thousand years ago, to occasional heavy rains, in the same way as at present." Mr.Howard has shown, by a table, that the notion commonly entertained...indicated by this tradition ; not that any long space be-, fore is often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." 190 NOTE 8. p. 110. This fact may... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Amusements - 1827 - 918 pages
...very justly observes, that " the opinion of the people on subjects connected with Natural History h commonly founded, in some degree, on fact or experience...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." NOTE 8. p. 110. This fact may be demonstrated by converting the triangle into a parallelogram, of which... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...notion will be found fallacious, if put to the test of experience at any one station in our island ; yet that, ' in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...come on about the time indicated by this tradition.' The fact itself is accounted for by the proximity of the summer solstice ; as the second rainy period... | |
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in a majority of our summers, a showery period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition ; not that any long space before... 
