 | 1807 - 518 pages
...the same predicament. For similar, or rather for more preposterous reasons, the Quakers have changed the names of the months and of the days of the week. Some of »hem are named, it seems, after the Heathen gods ; and therefore the use of them ' seemed... | |
 | English literature - 1807 - 522 pages
...fearful abomination. For similar, or rather for more preposterous reasons, the Quakers have changed the names of the months and of the days of the week. Some of them are named, it seems, after the Heathen gods; and therefore the use of them ' seemed to... | |
 | William Crookshank - Scotland - 1812 - 408 pages
...world, from the tyrant Charles Stuart, (I use their own words) to the smallest tyrant. They condemned the names of the months, and of the days of the week. But, about the latter end of April, the Gibbites were all taken by a troop of dragoons, at the Wolhill... | |
 | Joseph F. A. Bœuf - French language - 1832 - 404 pages
...upon, after verbs meaning to live, to depend, to subsist, is rendered by de. It is not expressed before the names of the months and of the days of the week, as was said before. Nous vivons de racines, We live upon roolt. Over, expressing the end of an action,... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - English essays - 1844 - 622 pages
...the same predicament. For similar, or rather for more preposterous reasons, the Quakers have changed the names of the months and of the days of the week. Some of them are named, it seems, after the Heathen gods ; and therefore the use of them " seemed to... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 754 pages
...the same predicament. For similar, or rather for more preposterous reasons, the Quakers have changed the names of the months and of the days of the week. Some of them are named, it seems, after the heathen gods; and therefore the use of them " seemed to... | |
 | Norman Pinney - French language - 1852 - 370 pages
...August, Juillet. Aout, September. October, Septembre. Octobre, November. December, Novembre. Decembre. The names of the months and of the days of the week, ore masculine. f Quel jour du mois est-oe l WTiat day of the month is it 7 < Quel quantieme (dumois)... | |
 | Alfred G. Havet - 1853 - 446 pages
...par 1700 officiers choisis parmi les compagnons de son enfance. (V.) 22. Henri IL, roi de France, t The names of the months and of the days of the week are generally spelt in F. withont capitals. J The prep, on used in E. in cases of this kind is not... | |
 | Woolwich roy. military acad - 1864 - 588 pages
...and * ordinal numerals 1 Compare the English numerals with those of any other language. 5. Explain the names of the Months and of the Days of the Week. What is the derivation of " Bissextile," and what is its English equivalent ? 6. Give a list of words... | |
 | Richard Whately - Apologetics - 1867 - 300 pages
...of no vital importance, a ground for setting up new sects. The colour of a Minister's vpstment, — the names of the months, — and of the days of the week, — the mode of conducting Church music, — the using or not using of a ring in matrimony — on these... | |
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The names of the months and of the days of the week are usually •written with a small initial. 
