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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... 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 ; and others are so rare as to seem altogether new ...
... 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 ; and others are so rare as to seem altogether new ...
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... labour . To what extent less embarrassed and more enlarged facul- ties could have better executed the task I cannot determine ; but I have always kept my main object in view , the promotion of social and benevolent feelings , and I am ...
... labour . To what extent less embarrassed and more enlarged facul- ties could have better executed the task I cannot determine ; but I have always kept my main object in view , the promotion of social and benevolent feelings , and I am ...
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... labour , to smiles and kind feelings in former times ; and why should they be unfashionable in our own ! Dr. Drake observes , in " Shakspeare and his Times , " that the ushering in of the new year , or new year's tide , with rejoicings ...
... labour , to smiles and kind feelings in former times ; and why should they be unfashionable in our own ! Dr. Drake observes , in " Shakspeare and his Times , " that the ushering in of the new year , or new year's tide , with rejoicings ...
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... labour . An old rocker took off the steel - boots , and concealed them ; promising the countess of Dorset , who was Charles's governess , that she would take any blame for the act on herself . Soon afterwards the king , Charles I. 15 16 ...
... labour . An old rocker took off the steel - boots , and concealed them ; promising the countess of Dorset , who was Charles's governess , that she would take any blame for the act on herself . Soon afterwards the king , Charles I. 15 16 ...
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... labour , penance , and contemplation . " Our saint , " says Butler , " happened one day inadvertently to kill a gnat , that was biting him in his cell ; reflecting that he had lost the opportunity of suffering that mortifi- cation , he ...
... labour , penance , and contemplation . " Our saint , " says Butler , " happened one day inadvertently to kill a gnat , that was biting him in his cell ; reflecting that he had lost the opportunity of suffering that mortifi- cation , he ...
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