 | Luke Howard - 1818 - 774 pagina’s
...part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, 1 may now state that in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstance. Swithin or Swithum, Bishop of... | |
 | Luke Howard - 1820 - 408 pagina’s
...part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, 1 may now state that in a majority of our summers, a showery 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... | |
 | 1821 - 536 pagina’s
...notion will be found fallacious, if put to the test of experience at any one station in our island; yet that, " in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...circumstances, may be admitted to constitute daily rain for 40 days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition." The fact itself is accounted for... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pagina’s
...fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our rummers, a showery period, which, with some latitude as to...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, Bishop of... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pagina’s
...fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may how state, that in a majority of our sumtners, tlry as to mark distinctly its commencetalent. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 892 pagina’s
...part of the island, will be found fallacious. To do justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...often so dry as to mark distinctly its commencement. The tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, bishop of... | |
 | William Hone - 1826 - 882 pagina’s
...justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our summers, a showery peí iod, the other for a palace, where will be seen fix aneéis ringing of bells. Likewise Hie tradition, it seems, took origin from the following circumstances. Swithin or Swithum, bishop of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 pagina’s
...notion will be found fallacious, if put to the test of experience at any one station in our island ; yet that, ' in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...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 - 1830 - 878 pagina’s
...it must be obdo justice to popular observation, I may now state, that in a majority of our-summers, a showery period, which, with some latitude as to...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... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pagina’s
...other summers, occurring between 1807 and 1819, appear to have come under the general proposition, " that in a majority of our summers, a showery period,...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... | |
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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 days, does come on about the time indicated by this tradition : not... 
