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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.Packer, George Nichols

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Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.

Name: Our Calendar: The Julian calendar and its errors. How corrected by the Gregorian. Rules for finding the dominical letter, and the day of the week of any event from the days of Julius Caesar 46 B.C. to the year of our Lord four thousand; a new and easy method of fixing the date of Easter. Hebrew calendar; showing the correspondence in the date of events recorded in the Bible with our present Gregorian calendar. Illustrated by valuable tables and charts.
Author: Packer, George Nichols

Packer, George Nichols

Calendar; Jewish calendar

-----------------------------------++-----------------------------------
          JULIAN METHOD              ||         MODERN METHOD
        OF INTERCALATION.            ||       OF INTERCALATION.
  -----------------------------------++-----------------------------------
   1 |_Cal._ | Calendae              ||  1 |_Cal._ | Calendae
   2 |   4   | Quarto Nonas          ||  2 |   4   | Quarto Nonas
   3 |   3   | Tertio Nonas          ||  3 |   3   | Tertio Nonas
   4 |   2   | Pridie Nonas          ||  4 |   2   | Pridie Nonas
   5 |_Nomes_|        Nonae          ||  5 |_Nomes_|        Nonae
   6 |   8   | Octavo Idus           ||  6 |   8   | Octavo Idus
   7 |   7   | Septimo Idus          ||  7 |   7   | Septimo Ides
   8 |   6   | Sexto Idus            ||  8 |   6   | Sexto Idus
   9 |   5   | Quinto Idus           ||  9 |   5   | Quinto Idus
  10 |   4   | Quarto Idus           || 10 |   4   | Quarto Idus
  11 |   3   | Tertio Idus           || 11 |   3   | Tertio Idus
  12 |   2   | Pridie Idus           || 12 |   2   | Pridie Idus
  13 | _Ides_|        Idus           || 13 | _Ides_|        Idus
  14 |  16   | Sextodecimo Calendas  || 14 |  16   | Sextodecimo Calendas
  15 |  15   | Quintodecimo Calendas || 15 |  15   | Quintodecimo Calendas
  16 |  14   | Quartodecimo Calendas || 16 |  14   | Quartodecimo Calendas
  17 |  13   | Tertiodecimo Calendas || 17 |  13   | Tertiodecimo Calendas
  18 |  12   | Duodecimo Calendas    || 18 |  12   | Duodecimo Calendas
  19 |  11   | Undecimo Calendas     || 19 |  11   | Undecimo Calendas
  20 |  10   | Decimo Calendas       || 20 |  10   | Decimo Calendas
  21 |   9   | Nono Calendas         || 21 |   9   | Nono Calendas
  22 |   8   | Octavo Calendas       || 22 |   8   | Octavo Calendas
  23 |   7   | Septimo Calendas      || 23 |   7   | Septimo Calendas
  24 |   6   | Bis-Sexto Calendas    || 24 |   6   | Bis-sexto Calendas
  24 |   6   | Sexto Calendas        || 25 |   6   | Sexto Calendas
  25 |   5   | Quinto Calendas       || 26 |   5   | Quinto Calendas
  26 |   4   | Quarto Calendas       || 27 |   4   | Quarto Calendas
  27 |   3   | Tertio Calendas       || 28 |   3   | Tertio Calendas
  28 |   2   | Pridie Calendas       || 29 |   2   | Pridie Calendas
  ---+-------+-----------------------++----+-------+----------------------


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The city where the great council was convened in 325 is not in France, as
some have supposed, that being a more modern city of the same orthography,
but pronounced Nees. The city which is so frequently referred to in this
work is in Bythinia, one of the provinces of Asia Minor, situated about 54
miles southeast of Constantinople, of the same orthography as the former,
but pronounced Ni'ce, and was so named by Lysimachus, a Greek general,
about 300 years before Christ, in honor of his wife Nicea.


D.--PAGE 23.

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