The Every-day Book and Table Book: Or, Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Months, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac ... for Daily Use and Diversio, Volume 2Pub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 101
... carried links or lanterns , and many , who were not so provided , lost themselves in the most frequented , and at ... carry torches . The lamps appeared through the haze like small candles . Careful hackney - coach- men got off the box ...
... carried links or lanterns , and many , who were not so provided , lost themselves in the most frequented , and at ... carry torches . The lamps appeared through the haze like small candles . Careful hackney - coach- men got off the box ...
Page 103
... carried up and down by the tide , or collected where the projecting banks or the bridges re- sisted the flow . These accumulations sometimes formed a chain of glaciers , which , uniting at one moment , were at another cracking and ...
... carried up and down by the tide , or collected where the projecting banks or the bridges re- sisted the flow . These accumulations sometimes formed a chain of glaciers , which , uniting at one moment , were at another cracking and ...
Page 111
... carried by the tide through one of the arches . They laid themselves down for safety , and the boatmen at Billingsgate , put off to their assistance , and rescued them from their impending danger . One of them was able to walk , but the ...
... carried by the tide through one of the arches . They laid themselves down for safety , and the boatmen at Billingsgate , put off to their assistance , and rescued them from their impending danger . One of them was able to walk , but the ...
Page 117
... carried to a distance from each other by the celerity of their motion . Of the present wooden skates , Ishod with iron , there is no doubt , we ob- tained a knowledge from Holland . The icelanders also used the shank- bone of a deer or ...
... carried to a distance from each other by the celerity of their motion . Of the present wooden skates , Ishod with iron , there is no doubt , we ob- tained a knowledge from Holland . The icelanders also used the shank- bone of a deer or ...
Page 119
... carried in procession at St. Paul's Cathedral . This by some antiquaries is presumed to have been the continuation of a ceremony in more ancient times when , according to certain accounts , a heathen temple existed on that site . It is ...
... carried in procession at St. Paul's Cathedral . This by some antiquaries is presumed to have been the continuation of a ceremony in more ancient times when , according to certain accounts , a heathen temple existed on that site . It is ...
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