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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Page 73
... cross words : at our first meeting , he seemed to have a pleasant countenance , and often smiled in my face , and would make me sing a merry catch or two ; but in a little time , he grew very churlish , and kicked up my heels , set my ...
... cross words : at our first meeting , he seemed to have a pleasant countenance , and often smiled in my face , and would make me sing a merry catch or two ; but in a little time , he grew very churlish , and kicked up my heels , set my ...
Page 103
... cross , fled away , after pointing out the way to the saint . Our author ( St. Jerome ) adds , that St. Anthony soon after met a satyr , who gave him to understand that he was an inhabitant of those deserts , and one of the sort whom ...
... cross , fled away , after pointing out the way to the saint . Our author ( St. Jerome ) adds , that St. Anthony soon after met a satyr , who gave him to understand that he was an inhabitant of those deserts , and one of the sort whom ...
Page 105
... Cross ; the scarlet lychnis , of St. John the Baptist's day ; the white lily , of the Visitation of our Lady and the virgin's bower , of her Assumption ; and Michaelmas , Martinmas , Holy Rood , and Christmas , have all their ...
... Cross ; the scarlet lychnis , of St. John the Baptist's day ; the white lily , of the Visitation of our Lady and the virgin's bower , of her Assumption ; and Michaelmas , Martinmas , Holy Rood , and Christmas , have all their ...
Page 115
... cross for chasing the devil , and lays down rules for the discernment of spirits . There is reason to believe that he could not read ; St. Austin thinks that he did not know the alphabet . He wore his habit to his dying day , neither ...
... cross for chasing the devil , and lays down rules for the discernment of spirits . There is reason to believe that he could not read ; St. Austin thinks that he did not know the alphabet . He wore his habit to his dying day , neither ...
Page 137
... cross soft amethyst , And on her hair a glory , like a saint : She seem'd a splendid angel , newly drest , Save wings , for Heaven : - Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by ...
... cross soft amethyst , And on her hair a glory , like a saint : She seem'd a splendid angel , newly drest , Save wings , for Heaven : - Her vespers done Of all its wreathed pearls her hair she frees ; Unclasps her warmed jewels one by ...
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