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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... feasts are kept . For instance : 1. from the notch which represents January 13th , on the feast of St. Hilary , issues a cross or badge of a bishop , as St. Hilary was ; from March 1st , a harp , showing the feast of St. David , by that ...
... feasts are kept . For instance : 1. from the notch which represents January 13th , on the feast of St. Hilary , issues a cross or badge of a bishop , as St. Hilary was ; from March 1st , a harp , showing the feast of St. David , by that ...
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... feast of St. John Baptist , who was beheaded ; the gridiron against August 10th , the feast of St. Lawrence , who suffered martyrdom on one ; a wheel on the 25th of Novem- ber , for St. Catherine , and a decussated cross on the last of ...
... feast of St. John Baptist , who was beheaded ; the gridiron against August 10th , the feast of St. Lawrence , who suffered martyrdom on one ; a wheel on the 25th of Novem- ber , for St. Catherine , and a decussated cross on the last of ...
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... feast of Epiphany . It gives a singular proof of the liberty then allowed , by king James and his court witnessing the exhibition of a piece , in which the corruptions of the existing government and religion were treated with the most ...
... feast of Epiphany . It gives a singular proof of the liberty then allowed , by king James and his court witnessing the exhibition of a piece , in which the corruptions of the existing government and religion were treated with the most ...
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... feast of Thor ! the feast ! That the truth lies among these various explanations , there appears no doubt ; we however turn to hogmenay among our- selves , and although the mutilated legend which we have to notice remains but as a few ...
... feast of Thor ! the feast ! That the truth lies among these various explanations , there appears no doubt ; we however turn to hogmenay among our- selves , and although the mutilated legend which we have to notice remains but as a few ...
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... feast on cakes made of carra- ways , & c . soaked in cyder , which they claim as a reward for their past labours in sowing the grain . ” ' # Credulity and Incredulity . In the beginning of the year 1825 , the flimsiest bubbles of the ...
... feast on cakes made of carra- ways , & c . soaked in cyder , which they claim as a reward for their past labours in sowing the grain . ” ' # Credulity and Incredulity . In the beginning of the year 1825 , the flimsiest bubbles of the ...
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