 | 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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Oliver Welch - Arithmetic - 1857 - 244 pages
...qr. 1 na. ? Ans. 32 F. ells. 3 qr. 3 na. OF TIME. Time is divided into seconds, minutes, hours, days, NOTE. When any year can be divided by 4 without a remainder, it is leap year ; and February has 29 days. EXAM.— AD 1808-^-4=14,5^ andxoas \ea^ 6543 5 1 244 4... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1822 - 440 pages
...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
...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... | |
 | Bonifazio Asioli - 1825 - 156 pages
...By certain characters called notes. A. Seven. « Q, How are they denominated ? • A. In England by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; in Italy and France, &c. by the following syllables: do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si. Q. How are the... | |
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January, are designated by the first seven letters of the alphabet, A, B, C, D, E, F, G ; and the one of these which denotes Sunday is the dominical letter. 
