| Robert Dodsley - Education - 1754 - 590 pages
...and repeated to them in a conftant Round throughout the whole Year. Thefe Letters are the firft feven of the Alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; and the Cuftom is, to aflign the Letter A to the firft Day of the Year ; which if it happens to be a Sunday,... | |
| David Jennings - Astronomical models - 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... | |
| John Pinkerton - Africa - 1804 - 694 pages
...Monday, the last is on the Monday. Now it is customary to place against the seven days of the week, the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, placing A always against the first day of the year, and therefore as they were continued through the... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 726 pages
...letter, 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 it be,... | |
| Daniel Adams - Arithmetic - 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... | |
| Thomas Busby - Music - 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...and 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... | |
| Thomas Tegg - Chronology, Historical - 1824 - 350 pages
...letter, 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 it be... | |
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