Note 3 — WORDS.
Reading edition
“About an eight days:” that is, a space of eight days. Luke ix. 28. But the expression is obsolete, or at least vulgar; and we may add likewise improper: for the number eight has not been reduced by use and convenience into one collective and compact idea, like a hundred, and a thousand; each of which, like a dozen, or a score, we are accustomed equally to consider on certain occasions as a simple Unity.