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 |
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Pàgina 27
... remains still of the same length and greatness it did 500 years ago . A vast quantity of wax , made up of the many drops which fall into the water upon those festival days , when the candle burns , may be justly called a standing ...
... remains still of the same length and greatness it did 500 years ago . A vast quantity of wax , made up of the many drops which fall into the water upon those festival days , when the candle burns , may be justly called a standing ...
Pàgina 43
... remain are still more rapidly declining . To those who are unacquainted with their origin they afford no associations to connect the pre- sent with former ages ; and without such feelings , the few occasions which enable us to show a ...
... remain are still more rapidly declining . To those who are unacquainted with their origin they afford no associations to connect the pre- sent with former ages ; and without such feelings , the few occasions which enable us to show a ...
Pàgina 57
... remains of Druidical , and other supersti- tious ceremonies . " On these points , if Mr. Fosbroke's Dictionary of Antiquities be consulted by the curious inquirer , he will there find the authorities , and be in other respects gratified ...
... remains of Druidical , and other supersti- tious ceremonies . " On these points , if Mr. Fosbroke's Dictionary of Antiquities be consulted by the curious inquirer , he will there find the authorities , and be in other respects gratified ...
Pàgina 65
... remain- ing quiet at Mr. Pain's : but about eight o'clock in the evening a fresh scene began ; the first thing that happened was , a whole row of pewter dishes , except one , fell from off a shelf to the middle of the floor , rolled ...
... remain- ing quiet at Mr. Pain's : but about eight o'clock in the evening a fresh scene began ; the first thing that happened was , a whole row of pewter dishes , except one , fell from off a shelf to the middle of the floor , rolled ...
Pàgina 67
... remain there , as she said , wherever she was , the same things would follow . In conse- quence of this advice , and fearing greater losses to himself , he desired Mrs. Gold- ing would quit his house ; but first beg- ged her to consider ...
... remain there , as she said , wherever she was , the same things would follow . In conse- quence of this advice , and fearing greater losses to himself , he desired Mrs. Gold- ing would quit his house ; but first beg- ged her to consider ...
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