 ... will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our summers, a showery period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty...  Transactions - Page 190by Royal Irish Academy - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Luke Howard - Clouds - 1818 - 774 pages
...period, which with some latitude as to time and local circumstances may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated...to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstance. Swithin or Swithum, Bishop of Winchester, who... | |
 | Luke Howard - London (England) - 1820 - 408 pages
...period, which with some latitude as to time and local circumstanees may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated...to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstance. Swithin or Swithum, Bishop of Winchester, who... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated...to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, Bishop of Winchester, who... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily / tlry as to mark distinctly its commencetalent. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated...to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, bishop of Winchester, who... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...iod, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. Hie tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, bishop of... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Amusements - 1827 - 918 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." NOTE 8. p. 110. This fact may be demonstrated by converting the triangle into a parallelogram, of which... | |
 | John Ayrton Paris - Science - 1827 - 234 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition ; not that any long space be-, fore is often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." 190 NOTE 8. p. 110. This fact may... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 834 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition.' The fact itself is accounted for by the proximity of the summer solstice ; as the second rainy period... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated...tradition : not that any long space before is often so served, that in 1816, the wettest year of the series, the solstitial abundance of rain dry as to mark... | |
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