The every day book: or a guide to the year: describing the popular amusements, sports, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events incident to the three hundred and sixty-five days in past and present timesWilliam Tegg, 1866 |
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... original information concerning manners and customs . I had so devoted myself to this main object , as to find no lack of materials for carrying it further ; nor were my correspondents , who had largely increased , less communicative ...
... original information concerning manners and customs . I had so devoted myself to this main object , as to find no lack of materials for carrying it further ; nor were my correspondents , who had largely increased , less communicative ...
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... original cost . Books and toys , labelled " bought on the Thames , " were in profusion . The watermen profited exceedingly , for each person paid a toll of twopence or threepence before he was admitted to " Frost Fair ; " some douceur ...
... original cost . Books and toys , labelled " bought on the Thames , " were in profusion . The watermen profited exceedingly , for each person paid a toll of twopence or threepence before he was admitted to " Frost Fair ; " some douceur ...
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... original document passed into the collection of the liberal Harley , earl of Oxford , and there being a print of it with some of its pictorial representations , an engraving is here given of the mode of trial which it exhibits as having ...
... original document passed into the collection of the liberal Harley , earl of Oxford , and there being a print of it with some of its pictorial representations , an engraving is here given of the mode of trial which it exhibits as having ...
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... original and favourite si- tuation , it was sometimes supposed to take a nightly trip to its old place of re sidence , unless exercised in the evening and secured with a chain or rope . Mr Warner , in his " Hampshire , " rates the ...
... original and favourite si- tuation , it was sometimes supposed to take a nightly trip to its old place of re sidence , unless exercised in the evening and secured with a chain or rope . Mr Warner , in his " Hampshire , " rates the ...
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... original design to other solem- The use of them soon became extended nities , and especially burials : which in- cessant tolling has long been complained of as a public nuisance , and to this the french poet alludes : - Pour honorer les ...
... original design to other solem- The use of them soon became extended nities , and especially burials : which in- cessant tolling has long been complained of as a public nuisance , and to this the french poet alludes : - Pour honorer les ...
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