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 Diversion, Volum 1Hunt and Clarke, 1826 |
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... custom of solemnizing our proper birthday hath nearly passed away , or is left to children , who reflect nothing at all about the mat- ter , nor understand any thing beyond the cake and orange . But the birth of a new year is of an ...
... custom of solemnizing our proper birthday hath nearly passed away , or is left to children , who reflect nothing at all about the mat- ter , nor understand any thing beyond the cake and orange . But the birth of a new year is of an ...
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... custom in Scotland to send new year's gifts on new year's eve ; and on new year's day to wish each other a happy new year , and ask for a new year's gift . There is a citation in Brand , from the " Statistical Account of Scotland ...
... custom in Scotland to send new year's gifts on new year's eve ; and on new year's day to wish each other a happy new year , and ask for a new year's gift . There is a citation in Brand , from the " Statistical Account of Scotland ...
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... custom in ancient Rome for tradesmen to work a little only , for luck's sake , that they might have con- stant business all the year after . A communication in an English journal of January 1824 relates , that in Paris on new year's day ...
... custom in ancient Rome for tradesmen to work a little only , for luck's sake , that they might have con- stant business all the year after . A communication in an English journal of January 1824 relates , that in Paris on new year's day ...
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... custom , ships were wont to perish . " Her own vessel was likely to strike on a tree in the water , which seems to have caused the wrecks ; she commanded the tree to be cut down , and began to pray ; when lo , just as the tree began to ...
... custom , ships were wont to perish . " Her own vessel was likely to strike on a tree in the water , which seems to have caused the wrecks ; she commanded the tree to be cut down , and began to pray ; when lo , just as the tree began to ...
Pàgina 41
... custom , the trees will bear no apples that year . To the preceding par- ticulars , which are related in the Gentle- man's Magazine for 1791 , may be added that Brand , on the authority of a Cornish- man , relates it as a custom with ...
... custom , the trees will bear no apples that year . To the preceding par- ticulars , which are related in the Gentle- man's Magazine for 1791 , may be added that Brand , on the authority of a Cornish- man , relates it as a custom with ...
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