Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may signifie ; what Use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage of it . CHAP . IV . 31 Of Garlands in Country Churches : Of strawing Flowers ...
... Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may signifie ; what Use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage of it . CHAP . IV . 31 Of Garlands in Country Churches : Of strawing Flowers ...
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... Grave . " I think this a curious and pertinent Quotation . It seems . to account for a Custom still preserved in the North , of making numerous Distinctions at the Conclusion of this Ceremony - nine Knells for a Man , sir for a Woman ...
... Grave . " I think this a curious and pertinent Quotation . It seems . to account for a Custom still preserved in the North , of making numerous Distinctions at the Conclusion of this Ceremony - nine Knells for a Man , sir for a Woman ...
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John Brand. They chime or ring too in some places while the grave is filling up . There seems to be nothing intended by tolling the passing Bell at present , but to inform the Neighbourhood of any Person's Death , and I am much mistaken ...
John Brand. They chime or ring too in some places while the grave is filling up . There seems to be nothing intended by tolling the passing Bell at present , but to inform the Neighbourhood of any Person's Death , and I am much mistaken ...
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... Grave , either in the House it died in , or in the Church itself . Agreeable to this , we read in St. Austin , That as they watched his Mother Monica , * Euodius took the Psalter , and began to sing a Psalm , which the whole Family ...
... Grave , either in the House it died in , or in the Church itself . Agreeable to this , we read in St. Austin , That as they watched his Mother Monica , * Euodius took the Psalter , and began to sing a Psalm , which the whole Family ...
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... Grave . The Heathens observed it , * because it presented to them , what would shortly follow , how they themselves should be so carried out , and laid down in the Grave . The going of the Corpse before , shewed that their Friend was ...
... Grave . The Heathens observed it , * because it presented to them , what would shortly follow , how they themselves should be so carried out , and laid down in the Grave . The going of the Corpse before , shewed that their Friend was ...
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