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... signifies : The Custom of the Papists at this Season : That our present Customs are very unbecom- ing . CHAP . XXII . 255 Of Palm - Sunday ; why so called ; How observed in the Popish Times : What it is truly to carry Palms in our Hands ...
... signifies : The Custom of the Papists at this Season : That our present Customs are very unbecom- ing . CHAP . XXII . 255 Of Palm - Sunday ; why so called ; How observed in the Popish Times : What it is truly to carry Palms in our Hands ...
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... , I find he has used Cluggan , which properly signifies a Clock ( Bellan is in the Margin ) . Clock is the old German Name for a Bell , and hence the French call one une is very apposite , as is that from Cassalion's occa- 14 ANTIQUITIES ...
... , I find he has used Cluggan , which properly signifies a Clock ( Bellan is in the Margin ) . Clock is the old German Name for a Bell , and hence the French call one une is very apposite , as is that from Cassalion's occa- 14 ANTIQUITIES ...
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... signifies , what use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage and Use of it . IT hath been observed among all Nations , both in the Heathen and the Christian World , as a becoming and profitable Cere- mony , to follow ...
... signifies , what use it may be of : Of Psalmody , its Antiquity , the Advantage and Use of it . IT hath been observed among all Nations , both in the Heathen and the Christian World , as a becoming and profitable Cere- mony , to follow ...
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... signify , that they who die in CHRIST , do not cease to live . though , as to the Body they die to the World , yet , as to their Souls , they live to GOD . For * Hædera quoque vel laurus & hujusmodi , quæ semper ser- vant virorem , in ...
... signify , that they who die in CHRIST , do not cease to live . though , as to the Body they die to the World , yet , as to their Souls , they live to GOD . For * Hædera quoque vel laurus & hujusmodi , quæ semper ser- vant virorem , in ...
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... signifying Genius , or universal Mercury , that conducted Sounds to their distant Subjects and taught to hear by Touch . It is accounted unlucky to destroy Swallows ; - This is probably a Pagan Relique . We read in Ælian , that these ...
... signifying Genius , or universal Mercury , that conducted Sounds to their distant Subjects and taught to hear by Touch . It is accounted unlucky to destroy Swallows ; - This is probably a Pagan Relique . We read in Ælian , that these ...
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