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 2 |
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Against many of the notches there are placed on the left hand several marks or
symbols denoting the golden number or cycle of the Moon , which number if
under 5 , is represented by so many points , or duts ; but if 5 , a line is drawn from
the ...
Against many of the notches there are placed on the left hand several marks or
symbols denoting the golden number or cycle of the Moon , which number if
under 5 , is represented by so many points , or duts ; but if 5 , a line is drawn from
the ...
Page 11
... who customaGood fortune we espy , rily “ dine out " in this manner half the For
our Wasse ) , week , would be very amusing , if it were illustrated by portraits of
some of the Some bounty from your hands , indulgers . It might be further , and ...
... who customaGood fortune we espy , rily “ dine out " in this manner half the For
our Wasse ) , week , would be very amusing , if it were illustrated by portraits of
some of the Some bounty from your hands , indulgers . It might be further , and ...
Page 65
When he comes to his hands , half open , look as if they had London , he and
some messmates take a just been handling ropes , and had no hackney.coach ,
full of Bet Monsons and object in life but to handle them again . tobacco pipes ,
and ...
When he comes to his hands , half open , look as if they had London , he and
some messmates take a just been handling ropes , and had no hackney.coach ,
full of Bet Monsons and object in life but to handle them again . tobacco pipes ,
and ...
Page 67
... mixture of pleasure and shame at his blushes with a bluster ) “ I'd as soon his
appearance ; and whose confusion he have given him twelve douses on the
completes , by slipping fourpence into her chaps as twelve guineas . " 6 Twelve
hand ...
... mixture of pleasure and shame at his blushes with a bluster ) “ I'd as soon his
appearance ; and whose confusion he have given him twelve douses on the
completes , by slipping fourpence into her chaps as twelve guineas . " 6 Twelve
hand ...
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I rather think I did not tell you in my last , that the decoy ducks , used in wildfowl
shooting , are made of woodmany stump near at hand is hacked out any how for
the body , while a small limb of any tree is thrust into the stump for the duck's neck
...
I rather think I did not tell you in my last , that the decoy ducks , used in wildfowl
shooting , are made of woodmany stump near at hand is hacked out any how for
the body , while a small limb of any tree is thrust into the stump for the duck's neck
...
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