Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... , pestem fugo , Festa decoro . We praise the true God , call the People , convene the Clergy , Lament the Dead , dispel Pestilence , and grace Festivals . The The large kind of Bells now in Use are said THE COMMON PEOPLE . 15.
... , pestem fugo , Festa decoro . We praise the true God , call the People , convene the Clergy , Lament the Dead , dispel Pestilence , and grace Festivals . The The large kind of Bells now in Use are said THE COMMON PEOPLE . 15.
Page 161
... Festivals of Christmas , Easter , and several others , which they ob- serve with Rites and Customs appropriated to them . Among these we find a great Deference paid to Saturday Afternoon , above the other worky Days of the Week : Then ...
... Festivals of Christmas , Easter , and several others , which they ob- serve with Rites and Customs appropriated to them . Among these we find a great Deference paid to Saturday Afternoon , above the other worky Days of the Week : Then ...
Page 170
... Festival Day of Devotion , and thereon to meet for the Exercise of religious Duties , -as is plain from several Passages of the Antients . Illustration of Common Prayer , P. 191 . An An Inference might easily be deduced from it in ...
... Festival Day of Devotion , and thereon to meet for the Exercise of religious Duties , -as is plain from several Passages of the Antients . Illustration of Common Prayer , P. 191 . An An Inference might easily be deduced from it in ...
Page 172
... Festival . Our Fore - Fathers , when the common De- votions of the Eve were over , and Night was come on , were wont to light up Candles of an uncommon Size , which were called Christmas- Candles , and to lay a Log of Wood upon the Fire ...
... Festival . Our Fore - Fathers , when the common De- votions of the Eve were over , and Night was come on , were wont to light up Candles of an uncommon Size , which were called Christmas- Candles , and to lay a Log of Wood upon the Fire ...
Page 173
... Beda , ibid . Gehol or Geol Angl Sax . Jol vel Jul , Dan , Sax . « And " to this Day in the North Yule , Youle , siguifics the solemn " Festival count of the Sun's returning , and the In- crease THE COMMON PEOPLE . 178.
... Beda , ibid . Gehol or Geol Angl Sax . Jol vel Jul , Dan , Sax . « And " to this Day in the North Yule , Youle , siguifics the solemn " Festival count of the Sun's returning , and the In- crease THE COMMON PEOPLE . 178.
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