Mr. Charles Knight, who worked so strenuously and so successfully for the spread of popular education, first struck a blow at the absurd monopoly of almanack printing.
This Almanackwas published only 67 years from the settlement at Plymouth, and 59 from that of Salem.
In our last we gave an account of an old Almanack for the year 1703.
A friend has handed us an almanack one hundred and fifty years old, which is quite a curiosity in its line.
Mr. Gordon, of Roxbury, wrote a very interesting account of the commencement of hostilities which was published in the North American Almanack for 1776.
Astronomical Diary and Almanackfor 1775, by Nathaniel Low.
In proof of this he handed an almanack to the bench,--and the prisoner was acquitted accordingly.
The prosecutor, however, had stated every thing truly; and it was known afterwards that thealmanack with which the counsel came provided, had actually been prepared and printed for the occasion!
The Almanack for that year contains the following: "Imaginary Conversation--Anybody speaking to anybody at the Athenaeum.
Ad vocem of the dedication of Seifritz's Overture, you have come to the right resolution in dedicating the 2nd year's issue of the Almanack to Prince Hohenzollern.
The first number of theAlmanack seems to me very successful.
Memorandum, to bind up the almanack aforesayd with other 8vo pamphlets, for 'tis exceeding considerable.
It is extracted from "poor Robin's" almanack for 1773; and may not be without its use, to many at the present day.
Old Robin's almanack was evidently the best of the time, and free from all the astrological cant with which Patridge's Merlinus Liberatus was filled; against which Poor Robin did not a little declaim.
It will shew, however, that the almanack astrologers did not live upon the best terms, but like their predecessors, were constantly abusing and attacking each other.
But a few weeks afterwards, when he again caught sight of the manuscript, he said, with a sorrowful expression of face, that the song was worthless, and regretted that he had sent it for publication in the Almanack of the Muses!
Only the Foolish Almanackhas been equal to the pleasant Task of Killing it.
Magna Charta, as it was called (it is now like an almanack of the same date), was no more than compelling the government to renounce a part of its assumptions.
For example: Every person who looks at an almanack sees an account when an eclipse will take place, and he sees also that it never fails to take place according to the account there given.
The only almanack with which the Trek-Boer is acquainted is one issued by the Dutch Reformed Church.
It is believed by certain classes of the Boers that the almanack is annually deduced from the Bible by a committee of Church ministers.
The idea was a splendid one; indeed, the only weak spot about it was a fear lest Good's almanack might be incorrect.
Suppose that the almanack is wrong," suggested Sir Henry to Good, who was busily employed in working out something on a blank page of the book.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "almanack" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
