. Clavis calendaria; or, A compendious analysis of the calendar, illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes. d other planetary luminaries, as wellas to Fire, Water, &c. To the shining light or Glory in which theDeity manifested his presence, may perhapsbe ascribed the custom, generally adopted bypainters, of placing round the head of our Saviour,the Virgin, the Apostles, and even, in the super-stitious ages, the Martyrs, the nimbus or divergingrays usually termed a glory, to mark them as su-perior beings ; and little justifiable as such prac-tice may be deemed in thes
. Clavis calendaria; or, A compendious analysis of the calendar, illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes. d other planetary luminaries, as wellas to Fire, Water, &c. To the shining light or Glory in which theDeity manifested his presence, may perhapsbe ascribed the custom, generally adopted bypainters, of placing round the head of our Saviour,the Virgin, the Apostles, and even, in the super-stitious ages, the Martyrs, the nimbus or divergingrays usually termed a glory, to mark them as su-perior beings ; and little justifiable as such prac-tice may be deemed in these times of purer sen-timent, it is far from being the most vain orimpious relict still in existence that has beenhanded down to us from our weak and bigotedancestors. In the Romish breviaries, and other popishoffices, Sundays are divided into two classes;those of the first class are, Palm, Easter, Advent,Quasimodo, Quadragesima, and IVkit-Sunday;those of the second, the ordinary Sundays of theyear ; while it is to be remembered that everySunday formerly had its particular appellation,which was taken from the mass of the day:. 109 Reniiniscere, Oculi, Lost are, and Judlcaj arestill retained in Lent. MONDAY, the second day of the week, was by our Saxonancestors dedicated to the especial adoration ofthe Moon, whence its name Mon-day, Moon-day, MooNE-DAY, The form.** of this idoll seemeth very strange and ridicu- lous, for, being made for a woman, shee hath a* short coat like a man: but more strange it is to see her hood with such two long eares. The* holding of a Moone before her breast may seem** to have been to expresse what she is, but the* reason of her chapron with long eares, as also of her short coat, and pyked shoes, I doe not* finde. Mr. HoRNE TooKE observes, that in many of the Asiatic languages, and in all the Northern* languages of this part of the globe, and parti- cularly in our mother language the Anglo-*^ Saxon (from which Sun and Moon are imme- diately
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