 | Arthur Cayley - Utopias - 1808 - 380 pages
...inviolable. The first and last day of the month and of the year, is with them a festival. They measure their months by the course of the moon, and their years by that of the sun. The first clays are called in their language Cynemernes, and the last Trapemernes, which terms answer... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 368 pages
...and inviolable. The first and the last day of the month, and of the year, is a festival. They measure their months by the course of the moon, and their years by the course of the sun. The first days are called in their language the Cynemernes, and the last the... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - Bible - 1836 - 484 pages
...extirpating all heathen rites from among them, should first introduce this cycle borrowed from the heathens, and employ it to a religious use, that is, for the...to find out such a cycle of years, in which, by the help of intercalations, the motions of the sun and the moon might be so adjusted to each other, that... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - History, Ancient - 1839 - 714 pages
...extirpating all heathen rites from among them, should first introduce this cycle borrowed from the heathens, and employ it to a religious use, that is, for the...festivals on the same day of the month, and on the bame season of the year, in like manner as the Jews were, had long been endeavouring to find out such... | |
 | Saint Thomas More - 1841 - 372 pages
...and inviolable. The first and last day of the month, and of the year, are festivals ; they measure their months by the course of the moon : and their years by the course of the sun : the first days are called in their language the Cynemernes, and the last the... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - Bible - 1842 - 484 pages
...conjectured concerning this matter (for nothing but conjecture can be had in it,) is, that when the"jews, in the dispersions after the time of Alexander the...to find out such a cycle of years, in which, by the help of intercalations, the motions of the sun and the moon might be so adjusted to each other, that... | |
 | Saint Thomas More - Utopias - 1845 - 356 pages
...inviolable. " The first and the last day of the month, and of the year, is a festival. They measure their months by the course of the moon; and their years by the course of the sun. The first days are called in their language the Cynemernes, and the last -the... | |
 | Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...inviolable. . , " The first and the last day of the month, and of the year, is a festival. They measure their months by the course of the moon; and their years by the course of the sun. The first days are called in their language the Cynemernes, and the last the... | |
 | Sir Thomas More (Saint) - Utopias - 1852 - 348 pages
...inviolable. " The first and the last day of the month, and of the year, is a festival. They measure their months by the course of the moon ; and their years by the course of the sun. The first days are called in their language the Cynemernes, and the last the... | |
 | Humphrey Prideaux - 1858 - 684 pages
...the time of Alexander the Great, through the countries I have mentioned, saw a necessity of coining to astronomical calculations, and settled rules for...reason which I have already mentioned, annually to keep alt their festivals on the same day of the month, and on the same season of the year, in like manner... | |
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... so that by their mediation a peace has been concluded on very reasonable terms; nor is there any nation about them so fierce, cruel, or barbarous as not to look upon their persons as sacred and inviolable. The first and the last day of the month,... 
