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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... seems to say , The prospect is not good that way . Thus do we rise ill sights to see , And ' gainst ourselves to ... seem'd but now . His revers'd face may show distaste , And frown upon the ills are past ; But that which this way looks ...
... seems to say , The prospect is not good that way . Thus do we rise ill sights to see , And ' gainst ourselves to ... seem'd but now . His revers'd face may show distaste , And frown upon the ills are past ; But that which this way looks ...
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... seems , by refer- ence to Mr. Fosbroke and our early au- thors , to have been a popular new year's gift . Mr. Ellis suggests , that the use of this present may be ascertained from a remark by old Lupton , that the flavour of wine is ...
... seems , by refer- ence to Mr. Fosbroke and our early au- thors , to have been a popular new year's gift . Mr. Ellis suggests , that the use of this present may be ascertained from a remark by old Lupton , that the flavour of wine is ...
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... seems , by the Golden Legend , to have been much annoyed by the devil . In a nine days ' journey through a desert , at the end of every mile he set up a reed in the earth , to mark his track against he returned ; but the devil pulled ...
... seems , by the Golden Legend , to have been much annoyed by the devil . In a nine days ' journey through a desert , at the end of every mile he set up a reed in the earth , to mark his track against he returned ; but the devil pulled ...
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... 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 fall , " two wild heads , grey and horrible , issued thereout , which stank so sore , that the people that ...
... 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 fall , " two wild heads , grey and horrible , issued thereout , which stank so sore , that the people that ...
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... seems to be a relic of the heathen sacrifice to Pomona . " Brand found it observed in the ancient calendar of the Romish church , that on the fifth day of January , the eve or vigil of the Epiphany , there were " kings created or ...
... seems to be a relic of the heathen sacrifice to Pomona . " Brand found it observed in the ancient calendar of the Romish church , that on the fifth day of January , the eve or vigil of the Epiphany , there were " kings created or ...
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