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 DiversionsPub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Almanacs, English |
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... attending the discovery of certain facts , and the labour of reducing all into order , will be appreciated by the few who have engaged in similar pursuits . Some curious matters are now , for the first time , submitted to the public ...
... attending the discovery of certain facts , and the labour of reducing all into order , will be appreciated by the few who have engaged in similar pursuits . Some curious matters are now , for the first time , submitted to the public ...
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... attended with such anguish and pain , that he lay for some time as dead . " After this he determined to pass the whole forty days of Lent in total abstinence , and retired to a hermitage for that pur- pose . Bassus , an abbot , left ...
... attended with such anguish and pain , that he lay for some time as dead . " After this he determined to pass the whole forty days of Lent in total abstinence , and retired to a hermitage for that pur- pose . Bassus , an abbot , left ...
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... attended by his workmen , with a large pitcher of cider , goes to the orchard this evening ; and there , encircling one of the best bearing trees , they drink the fol- lowing toast three times : " Here's to thee , old apple - tree ...
... attended by his workmen , with a large pitcher of cider , goes to the orchard this evening ; and there , encircling one of the best bearing trees , they drink the fol- lowing toast three times : " Here's to thee , old apple - tree ...
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... attend the bailiff ( or head of the oxen ) to the wain - house , where the following particulars are ob- served . The master , at the head of his friends , fills the cup , ( generally of strong ale , ) and stands opposite the first or ...
... attend the bailiff ( or head of the oxen ) to the wain - house , where the following particulars are ob- served . The master , at the head of his friends , fills the cup , ( generally of strong ale , ) and stands opposite the first or ...
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... attending to the dress- ing out of the window , executing orders of the day before , receiving fresh ones , or supplying the wants of chance customers . Before dusk the important arrangement of the window is completed . Then the gas is ...
... attending to the dress- ing out of the window , executing orders of the day before , receiving fresh ones , or supplying the wants of chance customers . Before dusk the important arrangement of the window is completed . Then the gas is ...
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