That the system be based on the principle that for all terrestrial time reckonings there be one recognized unit of measurement only, and that all measured intervals of time be directly related to the one unit measure.
We have, it seems to me, reached a stage when a unification of the infinite number of time-reckonings is demanded.
There is only one, and there can only be one flow of time, although our inherited usages have given us a chaotic number of arbitrary reckonings of this one conception.
My cozen Thomas Pepys the executor being below, and I went to him and stated reckonings about our debt, for his payments of money to my uncle Thomas heretofore by the Captain's orders.
It so happens that we are frequently led in our reckonings to results which diverge widely from reality.
Strictly speaking, the two travellers ought to change their reckoningson passing the 180th meridian; otherwise we have to admit that at the North or South Pole there would only be one Sabbath in seven years.
One day when they made an observation, the mates and officers brought their books and cast up their reckonings with the captain, to see how near they were to the coast of America.
He says he hath now evened his reckonings at the Wardrobe till Michaelmas last, and hopes to finish it to Ladyday before he goes.
For it is a true proverb that led by their desires “the reckonings of the vain are vain.
But to my mind the proverb, “the reckonings of the foolish are foolishness” applies to him.
In the class of eras of royal origin, brought into existence in the manner indicated above, the Hindus have had various reckonings which have now mostly fallen into disuse.
But we have to mention it because we come now to certain Hinduized reckonings which are hybrid offshoots of it.
We come now to certain reckonings consisting of cycles, and will take first the cycles of Guru or Brihaspati, Jupiter.
The Hijra era has, of course, now drawn somewhat widely away from this and the other reckonings derived from it; the Hijra year commencing in A.
But we prefer to treat these reckonings with exact correctness.
There are four reckonings which it is difficult at present to class exactly.
The reckonings derived from it, which we have to describe, have apparent initial points in A.
We may mention them, without giving them the detailed treatment which the more important of the still existing reckonings demand.
But that they mean well, and will do well; but their reckonings are very good, and show great faults, as I will insert here.
I put down the instrument, wrote the reckonings in my book.
Many of these almost unconscious reckonings took the form of playful impressions, and were not even at the time written down.
After one turne there back to Viner's, and there found my business ready for me, and evened all reckonings with them to this day to my great content.
After doing a little business I home, where Mr. Moore dined with me, and evened our reckonings on my Lord Sandwich's bond to me for principal and interest.
Well enough for such short reckonings as yours would be, on the profit side at least.
But the Roman youths by long reckoningslearn to split the coin into a hundred parts.
At the end of the war the supply of silver was recovered; henceforward all reckonings were made in silver, and the gold coinage was not long continued.
These reckonings in their beginnings and endings form an introversion, or Epanodos, thus:-- 587 B.
The Solar reckoningsare the more important dates; the Lunar are next in significance; while Zodiacal reckonings furnish us with dates which, to say the least, fit neatly into their places.
Indian Territory as a separate military entity came altogether too late into the reckonings of the North and the South.
Amounts arrived at by thesereckonings are given in square brackets.
It is characteristic enough of the age that De Thou's comments on the calculated height are a comparison with the reckonings of Apuleius and Plutarch concerning Olympus, which they considered the highest mountain in the world.
If the reckonings are correct, and all goes smoothly, then by the end of January or the beginning of February our fleet will be near the shores of Japan.
He says that he hath now evened his reckonings at the Wardrobe till Michaelmas last, and hopes to finish it to Lady-day before he goes.
You will, perhaps, find it hard to believe that he and the others should be so ignorant of navigation as to be duped by my false reckonings and misstatements of distances.
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