 ... 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
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 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 the tradition of St. Swithin." July 20. — The birth-day of Francis Petrarch, one of the three renowned... | |
 | Luke Howard - Climatology - 1833 - 462 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. yard, and not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual with other bishops, and his request was complied... | |
 | Luke Howard - Climatology - 1833 - 570 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. yard, and not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual with other bishops, and his request was complied... | |
 | William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 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 lone space before is often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems,... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...period, which, with some latitude as to time and local circumetances, 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 Swithura, bishop of Winchester,... | |
 | 1841 - 884 pages
...daily rain for forty days, does come on about the time indicated bv this tradition ; not that any loug space before is often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." By the concurrent testimony of other intelligent observers, it seems to be generally admitted, that... | |
 | William Hone - 1839 - 874 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... | |
 | 1841 - 456 pages
...latitude as to time and circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for forty days, does come about the time indicated by this tradition ; not that...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." It is worthy of remark that the forty days' rain now ascribed to St. Swithin formerly belonged to St.... | |
 | Charles Tomlinson - Clouds - 1846 - 226 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 the tradition of St. Swithin." But in these calculations, it is necessary to bear in mind that the... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 358 pages
...with some latitude as to time and local circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for xl days, does come on about the time indicated by this...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement." Query. — May not the foolish and superstitious idea of xl days' rain after St. Swithin, have originated... | |
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