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 105
... kind of misery . The number of deaths from cold and distress were greater than at any other period , unless at the time of the plague . There were eighty funerals on the Sunday before this date . The coffin - makers in Cook 105 106 THE ...
... kind of misery . The number of deaths from cold and distress were greater than at any other period , unless at the time of the plague . There were eighty funerals on the Sunday before this date . The coffin - makers in Cook 105 106 THE ...
Page 111
... kind or other . Gaming was carried on in all its branches . Many of the itinerant admirers of the profits gained by E O Tables , Rouge et Noir , Te - totum , wheel of fortune , the garter , & c . were industrious in their avocations ...
... kind or other . Gaming was carried on in all its branches . Many of the itinerant admirers of the profits gained by E O Tables , Rouge et Noir , Te - totum , wheel of fortune , the garter , & c . were industrious in their avocations ...
Page 137
... kind of chimes used on various occasions in token of joy . This ringing prevails in no country so much as in England , where it is a kind of diversion , and , for a piece of money , any one may have a peal . On this account it is , that ...
... kind of chimes used on various occasions in token of joy . This ringing prevails in no country so much as in England , where it is a kind of diversion , and , for a piece of money , any one may have a peal . On this account it is , that ...
Page 151
... kind of rivalship , for ornaments , & c . , with the church of Rome - that he , who could consent , when he married the French king's daughter , that their chil- dren were to be educated by their mother until thirteen years of age ...
... kind of rivalship , for ornaments , & c . , with the church of Rome - that he , who could consent , when he married the French king's daughter , that their chil- dren were to be educated by their mother until thirteen years of age ...
Page 241
... kind to take us into Fermoy , our endeavours were for some time fruitless . One person had a car , but no horse ... kind we were glad to secure it . By means of our trunks and some straw we formed a kind of lodgment on the car , which ...
... kind to take us into Fermoy , our endeavours were for some time fruitless . One person had a car , but no horse ... kind we were glad to secure it . By means of our trunks and some straw we formed a kind of lodgment on the car , which ...
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