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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... horse • rous Celts and Gauls had to contend with and superstition presented , it is very the many obstacles which their ignorance probable that the clergy , when they were unable entirely to abolish pagan rites , would endeavour , as ...
... horse • rous Celts and Gauls had to contend with and superstition presented , it is very the many obstacles which their ignorance probable that the clergy , when they were unable entirely to abolish pagan rites , would endeavour , as ...
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... horse in clouds of air , is a mere fable invented by weak men . It will be far otherwise , but be thou circumspect and secret , and to thee these things will be explained hereafter . Know , that by the element of water , by which we ...
... horse in clouds of air , is a mere fable invented by weak men . It will be far otherwise , but be thou circumspect and secret , and to thee these things will be explained hereafter . Know , that by the element of water , by which we ...
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... horses ' heads . Pedestrians carried links or lanterns , and many , who were not so provided , lost themselves in ... horse , and other vehicles , could scarcely plough their way through . Trade and calling of all kinds in the streets ...
... horses ' heads . Pedestrians carried links or lanterns , and many , who were not so provided , lost themselves in ... horse , and other vehicles , could scarcely plough their way through . Trade and calling of all kinds in the streets ...
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... horse . The middle North - road was impassable at Highgate - hill . On the 22d of January , and for some time afterwards , the ice on the Serpentine in Hyde - park bore a singular appear- ance , from mountains of snow which sweepers had ...
... horse . The middle North - road was impassable at Highgate - hill . On the 22d of January , and for some time afterwards , the ice on the Serpentine in Hyde - park bore a singular appear- ance , from mountains of snow which sweepers had ...
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... horse That cared not for its home . All shod with steel We hissed along the polished ice , in games And woodland pleasures , the resounding Confederate , imitative of the chase horn , The pack loud bellowing and the hunted hare . So ...
... horse That cared not for its home . All shod with steel We hissed along the polished ice , in games And woodland pleasures , the resounding Confederate , imitative of the chase horn , The pack loud bellowing and the hunted hare . So ...
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