The Perennial Calendar, And Companion To The Almanac - Illustrating The Events Of Every Day In The Year (1824) (Paperback)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1824 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE. Ax Album in the form of a Journal, divided into separate Spaces for each Day in the Year, and lying open in the Library of a then Student of one of the Universities, wherein he and some of his College Friends were in the Habit of recording something every Night as a Memorandum of the foregoing Day, was the Nucleus on which the present Calendar has been formed. Trifling as this mode of composing a Work may appear, yet it was found to be of great Use and Advantage to the Compiler, as a means of fixing in the Memory a vast number of historical Facts and their respective Dates, which would otherwise have been forgotten among the miscellaneous Objects of classical and professional Study. The original Subjects at first entered into this Diary were the Astronomical Events and the Religious Fasts and Festivals recorded in the modern Calendars of Europe, with the Names of the Saints celebrated each Day, the Commencement of particular Terms, and the Ceremonies of the different Courts, Churches, and People of Christendom. While several Years successively revolved, something new on the Recurrence of each Day was added, particularly on Subjects of Natural History, and Popular Antiquities; and thus the Plants which were usually in flower, the particular Animals which appeared, the Migratory Birds which arrived, and the several Games, Sports, Superstitions, and Ceremonies of the common People, belonging to each Day, Month, or Season, were successively added by the Editor and his Friends, as a Matter of Amusement to themselves, as well as for the memorial Purposes already described. The Explanation of the...