Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to Every Chapter of that Work: as Also an Appendix Containing Such Articles on the Subject as Have Been Omitted by that AuthorVernor, Hood and Sharpe ..., James Cundee ..., and W. Baynes, 1810 - 471 pàgines |
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Pàgina xiv
... Yule - Clog and Christmas - Candle ; what they may signify ; their Antiquity ; the like Customs in other places . 155 CHAP . XIV . Of adorning the windows at Christmas with laurel : What the laurel is an emblem of : An Objection against ...
... Yule - Clog and Christmas - Candle ; what they may signify ; their Antiquity ; the like Customs in other places . 155 CHAP . XIV . Of adorning the windows at Christmas with laurel : What the laurel is an emblem of : An Objection against ...
Pàgina 155
... Yule - clog and Christmas - candle ; what they may signify ; their antiquity ; the like customs in other places . IN the primitive church , Christmas - day was always observed as the Lord's - day was , and was in like manner preceded by ...
... Yule - clog and Christmas - candle ; what they may signify ; their antiquity ; the like customs in other places . IN the primitive church , Christmas - day was always observed as the Lord's - day was , and was in like manner preceded by ...
Pàgina 156
... yule - clog therefore hath probably been a part of that night's ceremonies . The very name seems to speak it , and tells its ori- ginal to every age . It seems to have been used as an emblem of the return of the sun , and the ...
... yule - clog therefore hath probably been a part of that night's ceremonies . The very name seems to speak it , and tells its ori- ginal to every age . It seems to have been used as an emblem of the return of the sun , and the ...
Pàgina 157
... Yule - log , from its being burnt as an emblem of the returning sun , and the increase of its light and heat . This was probably the reason of the custom among the heathen Saxons ; but I cannot think the observation of it was continued ...
... Yule - log , from its being burnt as an emblem of the returning sun , and the increase of its light and heat . This was probably the reason of the custom among the heathen Saxons ; but I cannot think the observation of it was continued ...
Pàgina 162
... yule , to give an emblem of that Light which was the Day - spring from on high . Nay this eve of yule , as Gregory tells us , was illuminated with so many tapers a- 66 mong the ancients , as to give to the vigil the " name of vigilia ...
... yule , to give an emblem of that Light which was the Day - spring from on high . Nay this eve of yule , as Gregory tells us , was illuminated with so many tapers a- 66 mong the ancients , as to give to the vigil the " name of vigilia ...
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Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's ... John Brand Visualització completa - 1810 |
Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's ... John Brand Visualització completa - 1810 |
Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's ... John Brand Visualització completa - 1810 |
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