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Modern Geography: A Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, and ... - Page lxxxix
by John Pinkerton - 1804
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An Introduction to the Use of the Globes, and the Orery: Also, the ...

David Jennings - 1766 - 218 pages
...This Table of Days is divided into 52 Weeks, of 7 Days each, and i Day over, by Means of the firft Seven Letters of the Alphabet A, B, C, D, E, F, G, perpetually recurring throughout the Year. A ftands againft the jft of January. B againft the ad, and...
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General Geography, and Rudiments of Useful Knowledge: In Nine Sections ...

Horatio Gates Spafford - 1809 - 448 pages
...hist is Monday also. Now it is customary to place against the 7 days of the week, the first 7 idlers of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, placing A always against the first day of the year: therefore as the letter is i.ontiiiHed through the year, the same letter A must stand ;•gainst the...
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The British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 2

William Nicholson - 1809 - 726 pages
...which we shall briefly explain. In our present calendars the days of the week are distinguished by the first seven letters of the alphabet ; A, B, C, D, E, F, G; and the rule for applying these letters, is invariably to put A for the first day of the year whatever...
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Adams's New Arithmetic: Arithmetic, in which the Principles of Operating by ...

Daniel Adams - 1810 - 190 pages
...hath September, April, June, and November, February twenty-eight alone ; All the rest have thirty-one. The first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, P, G, are used to mark the several days of the week, and they are disposed in such a manner, for every...
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A Complete Dictionary of Music: To which is Prefixed, a Familiar ...

Thomas Busby - 1811 - 334 pages
...PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC. The seven sounds in Music are represented by characters called notes, named after the first seven letters of the alphabet. A, B, C, D, E, F, G. These notes being placed upon, and between, five parallel lines called a stave, their particular names,...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 8

John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...union of staves is called the score. Chap. П.— О/ (A« f fr/. The notes of music are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, FG When the melody, or tune, exceeds these seven, the same scries of letters must be repeated. A clef...
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A Complete System of Astronomy, Volume 1

Samuel Vince - 1814 - 602 pages
...there remains 1, which shows that the last day of the year is the same day of the week as the first. Now it is customary to place against the seven days...the week, the first seven letters of the alphabet А, В, С, D, E, F, G, placing A always against the first day of the year, and therefore as they were...
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The Monthly correspondent on physical and prognostic astronomy ... &c

560 pages
...ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR MAY. JLN our present calendars, the days of the week are distinguished by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. The letter A is always put for the first day of the year; B for the second ; C for the third ; and...
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Time's Telescope for ... ; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack

1822 - 440 pages
...down. Astronomical ®ccumnce0. In our present calendars, the days of the week are distinguished by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G. The letter A is always put for the first day of the year; B, for the second; C, for the third; and...
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Chronology: Or, The Historian's Companion : Being an Authentic Register of ...

Thomas Tegg - 1824 - 350 pages
...which we shall briefly explain. In our present calendars the days of the week are distinguished by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; and the rule for applying these letters is invariably to put A for the first day of the year whatever...
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