Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... Cock - crow : Whether evil Spirits wander about in the time of Night ; and whether they fly away at the Time of Cock - crow : Reflections upon this encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in GOD . 59 CHAP . CHAP . VII . Of Church - Yards ...
... Cock - crow : Whether evil Spirits wander about in the time of Night ; and whether they fly away at the Time of Cock - crow : Reflections upon this encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in GOD . 59 CHAP . CHAP . VII . Of Church - Yards ...
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... Cock - fighting . - He would perhaps have talked in another Strain , and have represented these aerial Enemies as lending their Assistance to ring them . In the populous , commercial Town , from whence I date these observations , Church ...
... Cock - fighting . - He would perhaps have talked in another Strain , and have represented these aerial Enemies as lending their Assistance to ring them . In the populous , commercial Town , from whence I date these observations , Church ...
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... a Presage of the Happiness of the Deceased in the other World ! " Happy ( says the old Proverb ) is the Bride the Sun shines on , and the Corpse the Rain rains on . ” 66 CHAP . CHAP . VI . Of the Time of Cock - 58 ANTIQUITIES OF.
... a Presage of the Happiness of the Deceased in the other World ! " Happy ( says the old Proverb ) is the Bride the Sun shines on , and the Corpse the Rain rains on . ” 66 CHAP . CHAP . VI . Of the Time of Cock - 58 ANTIQUITIES OF.
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... Cock - crow . Reflections upon this , encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in God , IT is a received Tradition among the Vulgar , That at the Time of Cock - crowing , the Mid- night Spirits forsake these lower Regions , and go to ...
... Cock - crow . Reflections upon this , encouraging us to have Faith and Trust in God , IT is a received Tradition among the Vulgar , That at the Time of Cock - crowing , the Mid- night Spirits forsake these lower Regions , and go to ...
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... Cock . Some say that e'er against that Season comes , Wherein our Saviour's Birth is celebrated , The Bird of Dawning singeth all Night long . And then , they say , No Spirit doth walk abroad , The Nights are Wholsome , then no Planet ...
... Cock . Some say that e'er against that Season comes , Wherein our Saviour's Birth is celebrated , The Bird of Dawning singeth all Night long . And then , they say , No Spirit doth walk abroad , The Nights are Wholsome , then no Planet ...
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