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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... means the reader will be ac- quainted with legends that rendered the saints and the celebration of their festivals popular . For example , the saints in Butler's Lives on this day occur in the following order : St. Fulgentius ; St ...
... means the reader will be ac- quainted with legends that rendered the saints and the celebration of their festivals popular . For example , the saints in Butler's Lives on this day occur in the following order : St. Fulgentius ; St ...
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... means , in plain words , " You owe me a new year's gift . " A point of great emulation is , who shall salute the other first ; because the one who does so is entitled to a gift from the person saluted . Breakfast , consisting of al ...
... means , in plain words , " You owe me a new year's gift . " A point of great emulation is , who shall salute the other first ; because the one who does so is entitled to a gift from the person saluted . Breakfast , consisting of al ...
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... means un- common for a man of 8,000 or 10,000 francs a year to make presents on new year's day which cost him a fifteenth part of his income . No person able to give must on this day pay a visit empty - handed . Every body accepts , and ...
... means un- common for a man of 8,000 or 10,000 francs a year to make presents on new year's day which cost him a fifteenth part of his income . No person able to give must on this day pay a visit empty - handed . Every body accepts , and ...
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... means of all classes of persons to let boys acquire a know- ledge of the feats represented in the plates to his work , for teaching which his explanations are numerous and clear . An unseasonable occurrence in the cellar of the late sir ...
... means of all classes of persons to let boys acquire a know- ledge of the feats represented in the plates to his work , for teaching which his explanations are numerous and clear . An unseasonable occurrence in the cellar of the late sir ...
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... means of an instrument called a micrometer , his disc being now about 32 minutes of a degree ; whereas at the opposite season , or at the begin- ning of July , near our Midsummer , his apparent diameter is only about 31 minutes . The ...
... means of an instrument called a micrometer , his disc being now about 32 minutes of a degree ; whereas at the opposite season , or at the begin- ning of July , near our Midsummer , his apparent diameter is only about 31 minutes . The ...
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