The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of MrRobert BThomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter . other, andtheir testimony establishes one fact beyond peradventure:the phrase was common among the people in the last decadeof that century. The presumption is that it had been inuse a good while, and we are not surprised therefore tolearn that in 1809 Dr. Shadrach Ricketson, of New York,wrote of
The old farmer and his almanack : being some observations on life and manners in New England a hundred years ago suggested by reading the earlier numbers of MrRobert BThomas's Farmer's Almanack, together with extracts curious, instructive and entertaining as well as a variety of miscellaneous matter . other, andtheir testimony establishes one fact beyond peradventure:the phrase was common among the people in the last decadeof that century. The presumption is that it had been inuse a good while, and we are not surprised therefore tolearn that in 1809 Dr. Shadrach Ricketson, of New York,wrote of the name as long known in this Fivemore examples have been discovered by Mr. Matthewsbefore 1820, to which that from the Almanac for 1818 maynow be added as a sixth. From this time the term be-comes frequent. Its picturesqueness and agreeable asso-ciations commended it to writers of every grade and it wassoon established in literature on both sides of the lent itself readily to figurative applications. As early as1830 De Quincey wrote of the great Bentley: An Indiansummer crept stealthily over his closing days; a summer 1 Medical Repository, II, 282. 2 Tableau du Climat et du Sol des Etats-Unis dAmerique, Paris, 1803,I, 283. 8 Medical Repository, Second Hexade, VI,
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