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Gibbon Edward - The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, V
[ ENGLISH ESSAYS]
... been neglected; the fractions of minutes and hours were multiplied into days; and the date of the springs was removed from the sign of Aries to that of Pisces. The reign of Malek was illustrated by the Gelalaean aera; and all errors, either past or future, were corrected by a ...
Chaucer Geoffrey - A Treatise On The Astrolabe
[ ANGLO-SAXON (OLD ENGLISH)]
... signes and everich of hem arisith in more space than in 2 houres. Of whiche signes Gemini obeieth to Cancer, and 'raurus to Leo, Aries to Virgo, Pisces to Libra, Aquarius to Scorpioun, and Capricorne to Sagittarie. And thus evermore 2 signes that ben ilike fer fro the heved of ...
Joyce James - Ulysses
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... of kindergarten? Yes, rendering obsolete popguns, elastic airbladders, games of hazard, catapults. They comprised astronomical kaleidoscopes exhibiting the twelve constellations of the zodiac from Aries to Pisces, miniature mechanical orreries, arithmetical gelatine lozenges, geometrical to correspond with zoological biscuits, globemap playingballs, historically costumed dolls. What also stimulated him in his ...
Volney Constantin Francois De - The Ruins
[ FRENCH ESSAYS]
... the Constellations and Origin of all Worship, has assigned many plausible reasons to prove that Libra was formerly the sign of the vernal, and Aries of the autumnal equinox; that is, that since the origin of the actual astronomical system, the precession of the equinoxes has carried forward by seven ...
Poe Edgar Allan - Mellonta Tauta
[ FICTION]
... see the means,they cried, ''the means!If, upon investigation of the means, it was found to come neither under the category Aries (that is to say Ram) nor under the category Hog, why then the went no farther, but pronounced the 'theorist' a fool, and would have nothing to ...
Chaucer Geoffrey - A Treatise On The Astrolabe
[ ANGLO-SAXON (OLD ENGLISH)]
... of the sonne is thilke degre that is opposyt to the degre of the sonne, in the 7 signe, as thus: - every degre of Aries by ordir is nadir to every degre of Libra by ordre, and Taurus to Scorpioun, Gemini to Sagittarie, Cancer to Capricorne, Leo to Aquarie, Virgo ...
Gower John - Confessio Amantis
[ ENGLISH FICTION]
... and gret felicite. The tuelve Monthes of the yeer Attitled under the pouer Of these tuelve Signes stonde; Wherof that thou schalt understonde This Aries on of the tuelve Hath March attitled for himselve, Whan every bridd schal chese his make, And every neddre and every Snake 1010 And every ...
Chaucer Geoffrey - A Treatise On The Astrolabe
[ ANGLO-SAXON (OLD ENGLISH)]
... that it was beforn mydday, I turned my riet and sette the degre of the sonne, that is to seyn the first degre of Aries, on the right side of myn Astrelabye upon 25 degrees and 30 mynutes of height among myn almykanteras. Tho leide I my label upon the ...
Burgoyne Thomas H. - The Light Of Egypt Or The Science Of The Soul And The Stars
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... and, instead of its being an argument against astrology, it is one of its grandest truths that, in all ages and in all times, Aries, the first sign of the Zodiac has been found EVER THE SAME, equally as well as Pisces the last. In order to convey our meaning, ...
Burgoyne Thomas H. - The Light Of Egypt Or The Science Of The Soul And The Stars
[ MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
... the opposite point of the sphere, the point of equilibrium, equal day and equal night, it is autumn. It is the sixth sign from Aries, the first creative action, and so the sixth day following the fiery force, wherein God created the bi-sexual man. See Genesis, 1:5-27: " ...
Ariosto Ludovico - Orlando Furioso
[ POETRY]
... that way had gone, From Malagigi, his cousin, did he hear That when seven hundred times his course had run, Circling the heaven in Aries, the fourth sphere, Of islands this should be the fairest one In sea, or pool, or river, far and near, So that who this beheld, ...

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