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 91
... never in my life ( and I knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it ) saw her take out her snuffbox when it was her turn to play , or snuff a candle in the middle of a game , or ring for a ser- vant till it was fairly over . She never ...
... never in my life ( and I knew Sarah Battle many of the best years of it ) saw her take out her snuffbox when it was her turn to play , or snuff a candle in the middle of a game , or ring for a ser- vant till it was fairly over . She never ...
Page 99
... never have hit upon . " Being in haste to light can- dles for vigils , and some , who bore a spite to him , having put out all the fire in the monastery , he snatched the green bough of an hazel , blessed it , blew upon it , the bough ...
... never have hit upon . " Being in haste to light can- dles for vigils , and some , who bore a spite to him , having put out all the fire in the monastery , he snatched the green bough of an hazel , blessed it , blew upon it , the bough ...
Page 111
... never ate before sun- set , sometimes only once in two or four days , and lay on a rush mat or on the bare floor . For further solitude he left Coma , and hid himself in an old sepul- chre , till , in 285 , he withdrew into the de ...
... never ate before sun- set , sometimes only once in two or four days , and lay on a rush mat or on the bare floor . For further solitude he left Coma , and hid himself in an old sepul- chre , till , in 285 , he withdrew into the de ...
Page 125
... never heard of one another , would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible . That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence , and some who deny it with their tongues ...
... never heard of one another , would never have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible . That it is doubted by single cavillers can very little weaken the general evidence , and some who deny it with their tongues ...
Page 151
... never rose higher during the whole year . January 22 . St. Vincent . St. Anastasius . St. Vincent was a Spanish martyr , said to have been tormented by fire , so that he died in 304. His name is in the church of England calendar ...
... never rose higher during the whole year . January 22 . St. Vincent . St. Anastasius . St. Vincent was a Spanish martyr , said to have been tormented by fire , so that he died in 304. His name is in the church of England calendar ...
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