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It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pasture ; † Medemonȧth ; Midsumormonath ; Braeckmonath , or Brachmonat , i . e . breaking the soil , from the Saxon bræcan ; Solstitialis ; Woedmoneth , i . e . weed - month ...
It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pasture ; † Medemonȧth ; Midsumormonath ; Braeckmonath , or Brachmonat , i . e . breaking the soil , from the Saxon bræcan ; Solstitialis ; Woedmoneth , i . e . weed - month ...
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As the month advances we have Clover in blossom , both white and red ; beans and peas putting forth their blossoms : gooseberries ; the Madock Cherry , commonly called the May - Duke ; cauliflowers and various sorts of garden vegetables ...
As the month advances we have Clover in blossom , both white and red ; beans and peas putting forth their blossoms : gooseberries ; the Madock Cherry , commonly called the May - Duke ; cauliflowers and various sorts of garden vegetables ...
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The twenty - first of this month is the estival or summer solstice , so called because the sun , which has now entered the first degree of Cancer , and is at its greatest distance from the equator , appears to stand still .
The twenty - first of this month is the estival or summer solstice , so called because the sun , which has now entered the first degree of Cancer , and is at its greatest distance from the equator , appears to stand still .
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But it is in the reasons assigned for these observances that we are most called upon to admire the inexhaustible fertility of the author's inventive powers , and his determination at any price to * In quibusdam partib . ex antiquâ ...
But it is in the reasons assigned for these observances that we are most called upon to admire the inexhaustible fertility of the author's inventive powers , and his determination at any price to * In quibusdam partib . ex antiquâ ...
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head and tail of the dragon , and the caduceus of Mercury is composed of two dragons strangled at the middle , the one male , the other female ; the point of union was called Hercules , and Mercury was the inventor of astronomy .
head and tail of the dragon , and the caduceus of Mercury is composed of two dragons strangled at the middle , the one male , the other female ; the point of union was called Hercules , and Mercury was the inventor of astronomy .
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