The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 43
... appearance of the moon , your case is hopeless ; never- theless and notwithstanding , at a future new moon you may pursue the same course , and it will be sure to hold good during the then current month , but not a " whit " longer . On ...
... appearance of the moon , your case is hopeless ; never- theless and notwithstanding , at a future new moon you may pursue the same course , and it will be sure to hold good during the then current month , but not a " whit " longer . On ...
Page 45
... appearance . Hold a piece of looking - glass in a ray of sunshine , and then move a small ball through the reflected ray : it is easy to conceive that both sides will be illumined ; that side towards the sun by the direct sunbeam , and ...
... appearance . Hold a piece of looking - glass in a ray of sunshine , and then move a small ball through the reflected ray : it is easy to conceive that both sides will be illumined ; that side towards the sun by the direct sunbeam , and ...
Page 55
... appearance , and open- housekeeping , as far as may be , is the order of the day ; the bells at intervals send forth an enlivening peal ; all work is nearly suspended ; gay stalls of ginger- bread and fruit , according to the season of ...
... appearance , and open- housekeeping , as far as may be , is the order of the day ; the bells at intervals send forth an enlivening peal ; all work is nearly suspended ; gay stalls of ginger- bread and fruit , according to the season of ...
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... appearance ; and whose confusion he completes , by slipping fourpence into her hand , and saying out loud that he has " no more copper " about him . His mother and elder sisters at home doat on all he says and does , telling him however ...
... appearance ; and whose confusion he completes , by slipping fourpence into her hand , and saying out loud that he has " no more copper " about him . His mother and elder sisters at home doat on all he says and does , telling him however ...
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... appearance of the rainbow , indicated the approach of a drier atmos- phere , a change on few occasions within Mr. Howard's recollection more desirable . Numerous inundations , consequent on the thaw of the 24th , appear to have pre ...
... appearance of the rainbow , indicated the approach of a drier atmos- phere , a change on few occasions within Mr. Howard's recollection more desirable . Numerous inundations , consequent on the thaw of the 24th , appear to have pre ...
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