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 DiversionsPub. for T. Tegg, 1830 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 23
... relates seven other miracles by St. Adalard of the same nature . Butler says , his relics are still at Corbie , in a rich shrine , and two smaller cases , except a small portion given to the abbey of Chelles . The first Monday after new ...
... relates seven other miracles by St. Adalard of the same nature . Butler says , his relics are still at Corbie , in a rich shrine , and two smaller cases , except a small portion given to the abbey of Chelles . The first Monday after new ...
Page 25
... relates that when she was a child , St. Germaine said to her mother , " Know ye for certain that on the day of Genevieve's nativity the angels sung with joy and gladness , " and looking on the ground he saw a penny signed with the cross ...
... relates that when she was a child , St. Germaine said to her mother , " Know ye for certain that on the day of Genevieve's nativity the angels sung with joy and gladness , " and looking on the ground he saw a penny signed with the cross ...
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... relates to an individual who had attained the extraordinary age of one hundred and eighty - five years . " Czartan Petrarch , by religion a Greek , was born in the year 1539 , and died on the 5th of January , 1724 , at Kofrosch , a ...
... relates to an individual who had attained the extraordinary age of one hundred and eighty - five years . " Czartan Petrarch , by religion a Greek , was born in the year 1539 , and died on the 5th of January , 1724 , at Kofrosch , a ...
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... relates it as a custom with the Devonshire people to go after supper into the orchard , with a large milk - pan full of cider , having roasted apples pressed into it . " Out of this each person in company takes , what is called a clayen ...
... relates it as a custom with the Devonshire people to go after supper into the orchard , with a large milk - pan full of cider , having roasted apples pressed into it . " Out of this each person in company takes , what is called a clayen ...
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... relates in the Gentle- man's Magazine , 1784 , that " near Leeds , in Yorkshire , when he was a boy , it was customary for many families , on the twelfth eve of Christmas , to invite their relations , friends , and neighbours , to their ...
... relates in the Gentle- man's Magazine , 1784 , that " near Leeds , in Yorkshire , when he was a boy , it was customary for many families , on the twelfth eve of Christmas , to invite their relations , friends , and neighbours , to their ...
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