Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... Moresin in the Time of James I. and dedicated to that Monarch , is also luckily in my Possession . It is written in Latin , and en- titled " The Origin and Increase of Depravity in Reli- gion ; " containing a very masterly Parallel ...
... Moresin in the Time of James I. and dedicated to that Monarch , is also luckily in my Possession . It is written in Latin , and en- titled " The Origin and Increase of Depravity in Reli- gion ; " containing a very masterly Parallel ...
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... Moresin tells us , " That Salt is the Emblem " of Eternity and Immortality : It is not liable to " Putrefaction itself , and it preserves Things that are seasoned with it from Decay . " - He gives us also his Conjecture on the Use of a ...
... Moresin tells us , " That Salt is the Emblem " of Eternity and Immortality : It is not liable to " Putrefaction itself , and it preserves Things that are seasoned with it from Decay . " - He gives us also his Conjecture on the Use of a ...
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... Moresin tells us , that in England they were so profuse on this Occasion , that it cost less to portion off a Daughter , than to bury a dead Wife . These Burial Feasts are still retained in the North . We have the very Coffin of the ...
... Moresin tells us , that in England they were so profuse on this Occasion , that it cost less to portion off a Daughter , than to bury a dead Wife . These Burial Feasts are still retained in the North . We have the very Coffin of the ...
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... Moresin above cited , on this Subject . It appears from Pliny's Natural History , from Cicero in his Oration for Lucius Plancius , and from Virgil's sixth Eneid , * Not entirely : -I saw lately , in the Churches of Walsingham and ...
... Moresin above cited , on this Subject . It appears from Pliny's Natural History , from Cicero in his Oration for Lucius Plancius , and from Virgil's sixth Eneid , * Not entirely : -I saw lately , in the Churches of Walsingham and ...
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... Moresin tells us , that Altars , in papal Rome , were placed towards the East , in imi- been intended , no Doubt , as an Argument against Transubstan- tiation : Gif God be transubstantiall , " In Breid with hoc est Corpus meum ; " " Why ...
... Moresin tells us , that Altars , in papal Rome , were placed towards the East , in imi- been intended , no Doubt , as an Argument against Transubstan- tiation : Gif God be transubstantiall , " In Breid with hoc est Corpus meum ; " " Why ...
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