The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year ..., Volume 1Gray and Bowen, 1833 - Almanacs, American Vol. 1 has title: The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge ... comprising a calendar for the year; astronomical information; miscellaneous directions, hints, and statistical and other particulars. |
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... half of Tennessee , the southern extremity of New Jersey , the southern third of Ohio and Indiana ; the southern half of Illinois , all but the northern third of Missouri , and the northern third of North Carolina and Arkansas . The ...
... half of Tennessee , the southern extremity of New Jersey , the southern third of Ohio and Indiana ; the southern half of Illinois , all but the northern third of Missouri , and the northern third of North Carolina and Arkansas . The ...
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... half the differ- ence when the time of the other tide is required . The Planets are placed in the order in which they pass the meridian on the first day of each month , and their declinations are computed for the moment of their passage ...
... half the differ- ence when the time of the other tide is required . The Planets are placed in the order in which they pass the meridian on the first day of each month , and their declinations are computed for the moment of their passage ...
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tion of half her motion between the first and second , +8.6 ; hence her longitude at that time is 9 ° 46 ′ 7 ′′ .6 . The Occultations ( pages 4,5,6 , ) were computed with the greatest strict- ness , and so very nearly accurate are the ...
tion of half her motion between the first and second , +8.6 ; hence her longitude at that time is 9 ° 46 ′ 7 ′′ .6 . The Occultations ( pages 4,5,6 , ) were computed with the greatest strict- ness , and so very nearly accurate are the ...
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... half after the time of new or full moon ; at the moment of new or full moon the sun and moon being at their mean distance from the earth , and in the plane of the equator . The unit of altitude of any place , multiplied by the numbers ...
... half after the time of new or full moon ; at the moment of new or full moon the sun and moon being at their mean distance from the earth , and in the plane of the equator . The unit of altitude of any place , multiplied by the numbers ...
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... half a minute , and then decrease in a similar manner ; so that we are obliged to strike a balance , or take an average of all the days in the year , and divide this average into 24 parts , in order to give to the hour a definite ...
... half a minute , and then decrease in a similar manner ; so that we are obliged to strike a balance , or take an average of all the days in the year , and divide this average into 24 parts , in order to give to the hour a definite ...
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19th day 1st day Aldebaran Almanac Amount Apogee appears April astronomers Bank Bay of Fundy Boston Britain Canal Catholic centre Chargé d'Affaires Charleston Clover comet Corn Debt December Delaware difference dist distance dominical letter earth Easter eclipse Equat Expenditures February fees France Full Moon Fund Georgia h. m. Dec High water Immersion Emersion Island January John July June Jupiter Latitude Longitude Mahometan March Mars Maryland Massachusetts Mercury meridian miles Minister Plenipotentiary month Moon's Equatorial Parallax motion noon at Greenwich North observed Occultation Ohio orbit Orleans Parallax Parallax and Horizon Pennsylvania Perigee perihelion period PHENOMENA AND OBSER planets Quarter Receipts revolution Rhode Island rises and sets Saturn Schools season Semidiameter in seconds Sept South Carolina Southing and Declination star Stock sun and moon Sun's Moon's Sunday after Trinity tides Total Treasury United Uranus Virginia Washington Wheat William York
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Page 111 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 114 - ... to these we must add frugality, if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, " keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will ; " and 11 Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting. "If you would be wealthy, think of saving, as well as of getting. • The Indies have not made...
Page 112 - He that riseth late must trot all Day, and shall scarce overtake his Business at Night; while Laziness travels so slowly, that Poverty soon overtakes him...
Page 113 - If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself . A little neglect may breed great mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe naiL
Page 116 - The day comes round before you are aware, and the demand is made before you are prepared to satisfy it; or, if you bear your debt in mind, the term, which at first seemed so long, will, as it lessens, appear extremely short. Time will seem to have added wings to his heels as well as his shoulders. Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Page 116 - At present, perhaps, you may think yourself in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury; but — For age and want, save while you may, No morning sun lasts a whole day.
Page 117 - I was conscious that not a tenth part of the wisdom was my own which he ascribed to me, but rather the gleanings that I had made of the sense of all ages and nations. However, I resolved to be the better for the echo of it, and though I had at first determined to buy stuff for a new coat, I went away resolved to wear my old one a little longer. Reader, if thou 32 wilt do the same, thy profit will be as great as mine.
Page 116 - Would you not say that you are free, have a right to dress as you please, and that such an edict would be a breach of your privileges and such a government tyrannical? And yet you are about to put yourself under such tyranny, when you run in debt for such dress.
Page 117 - Thus the old gentleman ended his harangue. The people heard it and approved the doctrine, and immediately practised the contrary, just as if it had been a common sermon ; for the auction opened, and they began to buy extravagantly.
Page 86 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.