Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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Page vii
... Lights have arisen since his Time . The English Antique has become a general and fashionable Study ; and the Discoveries of the very respectable Society of * I call to mind here the pleasing Account Mr. Sterne has left us in his ...
... Lights have arisen since his Time . The English Antique has become a general and fashionable Study ; and the Discoveries of the very respectable Society of * I call to mind here the pleasing Account Mr. Sterne has left us in his ...
Page viii
... Light upon the Subject , from a great variety of Volumes , and those written too in several Languages ; in the doing of which , if I shall not be found to have deserved the Praise of Judgment , I must at least make Pretensions to the ...
... Light upon the Subject , from a great variety of Volumes , and those written too in several Languages ; in the doing of which , if I shall not be found to have deserved the Praise of Judgment , I must at least make Pretensions to the ...
Page ix
... Light . The Calendar was crowded with Red - Letter Days , no- minally indeed consecrated to Saints ; but which , by the encouragement of Idleness and Dissipation of Manners , gave every kind of countenance to SINNERS . A Profusion of ...
... Light . The Calendar was crowded with Red - Letter Days , no- minally indeed consecrated to Saints ; but which , by the encouragement of Idleness and Dissipation of Manners , gave every kind of countenance to SINNERS . A Profusion of ...
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... light the Dead , and warm th ' unfruitful Urn . ” Eloise to Abelard . Jubet Papa Cadaveris Expiationes fieri , ut quod valde immun- dum est , aspergatur aqua benedicta , thurificetur , exorcisetur sacris orationibus , illustretur sacris ...
... light the Dead , and warm th ' unfruitful Urn . ” Eloise to Abelard . Jubet Papa Cadaveris Expiationes fieri , ut quod valde immun- dum est , aspergatur aqua benedicta , thurificetur , exorcisetur sacris orationibus , illustretur sacris ...
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... light , but with such Gambols and Frolics among the younger Part of the Company , that the Loss which " occasioned them is often more than supplied by the Consequences " of that Night . - If the Corpse remains unburied for two Nights ...
... light , but with such Gambols and Frolics among the younger Part of the Company , that the Loss which " occasioned them is often more than supplied by the Consequences " of that Night . - If the Corpse remains unburied for two Nights ...
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Account Angels antient antient Custom Antiquity appear apud atque Author Bell Bishop Bishop Stillingfleet Blount Bourne called Candlemass Candles Cere Ceremony CHRIST Christians Christmass Church Church of Rome Church-yards Cock Cock-crow common Corpse Dæmon Dance Darkness Dead derived Devil Divination drink Du Cange Durand Easter Eggs Emblem enim etiam Etymon evil Fairs Feast Festival Fire Funeral Ghost Grave hæc hath Heathens Hence Holy Honour House Ibid JESUS Kind King learned Light LORD Love Manner Mede Moresin Moresini Deprav Morning Name Newcastle upon Tyne Night North Number OBSERVATIONS ON CHAP Occasion Omens Opinion Orig Origin perhaps Places Plutarch Polyd Prayers present quæ quod Rites Rome saltatione Saturnalia Saxon says Scotland Season Second Sight seems Servants shew signifies sing Solstice Soul Spirits Sport Sunday Superstition supposed Taisch tells thee Things thou tion unto Verbo Vide vulgar Witches wont Word Worship