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... antient as the Use of Bells . This is somewhat im- probable . It has rather been an After - Invention of Superstition . Thus praying for the Dying was improved upon in praying for the Dead . Bells must have been first used as Signals to ...
... antient as the Use of Bells . This is somewhat im- probable . It has rather been an After - Invention of Superstition . Thus praying for the Dying was improved upon in praying for the Dead . Bells must have been first used as Signals to ...
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... Antients had some Sort of Bells . I find the Word Tintinnabula , ( which we usually render Bells ) in Martial ... antient Offices of Bells seem to be included . Laudo Deum verum , Plebem voco , congrego Clerum , Defunctos ploro ...
... Antients had some Sort of Bells . I find the Word Tintinnabula , ( which we usually render Bells ) in Martial ... antient Offices of Bells seem to be included . Laudo Deum verum , Plebem voco , congrego Clerum , Defunctos ploro ...
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... antient Councils quoted in Durant , † p . 232 , is , I think , much more apposite ; " Now it must be observed , " that Psalms are wont to be sung not only when " the Corpse is conducted to Church , but that the " Antients watched on the ...
... antient Councils quoted in Durant , † p . 232 , is , I think , much more apposite ; " Now it must be observed , " that Psalms are wont to be sung not only when " the Corpse is conducted to Church , but that the " Antients watched on the ...
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... antient Rite in England . * To streek , to expand , or stretch out , from the Anglo - Saxon szɲecan , extendere . See Benson's Anglo - Saxon Vocabulary in verbo . - A Streeking Board is that on which they stretch out and compose the ...
... antient Rite in England . * To streek , to expand , or stretch out , from the Anglo - Saxon szɲecan , extendere . See Benson's Anglo - Saxon Vocabulary in verbo . - A Streeking Board is that on which they stretch out and compose the ...
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... antient and ser- " viceable Usage was over - grown with Supersti- ❝tion , and turned into a Convenience for Theft ... antiently cursed with Bell , Book , and Candle . * Collier's Ecclesiast . Hist . Vol . I. P. 487 . + Fol . 253 ...
... antient and ser- " viceable Usage was over - grown with Supersti- ❝tion , and turned into a Convenience for Theft ... antiently cursed with Bell , Book , and Candle . * Collier's Ecclesiast . Hist . Vol . I. P. 487 . + Fol . 253 ...
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