Fig. 1. 



COMMON THINGS. 



THE ALMANACK. 



CHAPTEE I. 



The Almanack. 2. The Calendar. 3. The contents of an Almanack 

 Predictions. 4. Its prophetic character abused. 5. Saints' Days. 

 6. Date of the year. 7. Christian era. 8. Discrepancy between the 

 reckoning of Astronomers and Chronologists. 9 When a century 

 begins and ends. 10. Commencement and duration of the Seasons. 

 11. Beginning of the year. 12. Fixed and moveable Feasts. 

 13. Easter. 14. Not dependent on the phases of the Moon. 

 15. By what rule determined. 16. Rule not generally understood. 

 17. Equinox. 18. Ecclesiastical Moon. 19. Age of the Moon. 

 20. Full Moon. 21. Error in the expression of the rule. 22. Lunar 

 cycle. 23. Average length of civil and astronomical cycles agree. 

 24. Fictitious moon never far distant from real moon. 25. Golden 



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