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 ... with Four Hundred and Thirty-six Engravings, Volume 3Thomas Tegg, 1830 - Anecdotes |
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Page 47
... head of the school , and qualified to assist my master ( Mr. E. Furlong ) on any extraordinary emer- gency . As he usually gave me a trifle on those occasions , it raised a thought in me , that by en- gaging with him as a regular ...
... head of the school , and qualified to assist my master ( Mr. E. Furlong ) on any extraordinary emer- gency . As he usually gave me a trifle on those occasions , it raised a thought in me , that by en- gaging with him as a regular ...
Page 71
... head with their weighty publications . All the actors had a bad pronunciation . Cicero was called Kikkero , ( which , by the by , is probably the correct one ; ) Africa was called Afryka , fatigued was fattygewed , and pageantry was ...
... head with their weighty publications . All the actors had a bad pronunciation . Cicero was called Kikkero , ( which , by the by , is probably the correct one ; ) Africa was called Afryka , fatigued was fattygewed , and pageantry was ...
Page 79
... heads , spur- rowels of a hand's breadth , keys , daggers , scales , seals with the proprietors ' names in Saxon ... head of flint fastened into a shaft of good length . * From this elephant , the public - house near the spot where ...
... heads , spur- rowels of a hand's breadth , keys , daggers , scales , seals with the proprietors ' names in Saxon ... head of flint fastened into a shaft of good length . * From this elephant , the public - house near the spot where ...
Page 83
... head , with the horns , " The hospital had neither college nor com- mon seal . ' The last Likeness of the Duke of York . FROM. 66 " ? Britons , it is reasonable to conjecture , where such insignia are discovered , the tumuli are the ...
... head , with the horns , " The hospital had neither college nor com- mon seal . ' The last Likeness of the Duke of York . FROM. 66 " ? Britons , it is reasonable to conjecture , where such insignia are discovered , the tumuli are the ...
Page 85
... HEAD CAROL . For the Table Book . Mr. Editor , -In reading your account of the " Boar's Head Carol , " in your Every Day Book , vol . i . p . 1619 , I find the old carol , but not the words of the carol as sung at present in Queen's ...
... HEAD CAROL . For the Table Book . Mr. Editor , -In reading your account of the " Boar's Head Carol , " in your Every Day Book , vol . i . p . 1619 , I find the old carol , but not the words of the carol as sung at present in Queen's ...
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