 | Rasmus Rask - Malays (Asian people) - 1821 - 358 pages
...Chinese reckon their time by cycles of 60 years, instead of numbering them as we do, they give • different name to every year in the cycle. As all...each, series are taken for the second year ; and so the tenth : in the eleventh year, the series of ten being exhausted they begiu again with the first,... | |
 | Christian education - 1833 - 682 pages
...years ; instead of numbering them as wo do, they give a different name to every year in the cycle. They have two series of words, one of ten, and the...series are taken for the second year; and so to the 10th ; in the llth year, the series of ten being exhausted ; they begin again with the first, combining... | |
 | American education society - 1833 - 406 pages
...60 years; instead of numbering them as we do, they give a different name to every year in the cycle. They have two series of words, one of ten, and the...in each series are taken for the second year; and зо to the 10th; in the llth year, the series of ten being exhausted ; they begin again with the first,... | |
 | Clergy - 1833 - 378 pages
...years ; instead of numbering them as we do, they give a different name to every year in the cycle. They have two series of words, one of ten, and the other of twelve words ; a comhination of the first words in both orders is the name of the first year ; the next in each series... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 660 pages
...ShambeorHaftaSunneechcr Shiyar Sabt. TUB CHINESE, like all the nations of the north-east of Asia, reckon their time by cycles of 60 years ; instead of numbering them as...second year ; and so to the tenth : in the eleventh yoar, the series of ten being exhausted, they begin again with the first, combining it with the eleventh... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 650 pages
...ShambeorHaftaSunneechcr Shiyar Sabt. THH CHINESE, like all the nations of the north-east of Asia, reckon their time by cycles of 60 years ; instead of numbering them as...second year ; and so to the tenth : in the eleventh yoar, the series of ten being exhausted, they begin again with the first, combining it with the eleventh... | |
 | James Prinsep - India - 1858 - 658 pages
...named as follow : — THE CHINESE, like all the nations of the north-east of Asia, reckon their time by cycles of 60 years ; instead of numbering them as...orders is the name of the first year ; the next in each scries are taken for the second year ; and so to the tenth : in the eleventh y-;ar, the scries of ten... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1874 - 530 pages
...Chinese, like all the nations of the north-cast of Asia, reckon their time by cycles of 00 veal's. Instead of numbering them as we do, they give a different...orders is the name of the first year; the next in each scries are taken for the second year; and so to the tenth: in the eleventh year, the series of ten... | |
 | Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak - India - 1891 - 594 pages
...The following explanation taken from the Usefnl Tables will elucidate the text. They have two serios of words, one of ten and the other of twelve words ; a combination of the fint words in both orders is the name of the let year : the next in each series «re taken for the... | |
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Asia, reckon their time by cycles of 60 years ; instead of numbering them as we do, they give a different name to every year in the cycle. As all those nations follow the same system, we shall detail it here more particularly. They have two series of... 