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 Times, Band 1W. Tegg, 1866 - 1711 Seiten |
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... day An hatchet keene , with which he felled wood , And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray . January 1 . A close holiday at all public Circumcision . offices except the Excise , Cus- toms , and ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 1 .
... day An hatchet keene , with which he felled wood , And from the trees did lop the needlesse spray . January 1 . A close holiday at all public Circumcision . offices except the Excise , Cus- toms , and ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 1 .
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... day , how- ever industrious . Mr. Ellis shows that it was a new year's day custom in ancient Rome for tradesmen to work a little only , for luck's sake , that they might have con- stant business all the ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 1 .
... day , how- ever industrious . Mr. Ellis shows that it was a new year's day custom in ancient Rome for tradesmen to work a little only , for luck's sake , that they might have con- stant business all the ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 1 .
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... day of their new year give sumptuous enter- tainments , and joyfully wish each other " a happy new year . ' This salutation is not yet obsolete even with us ; but the new year's gift seldom arrives ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 1 .
... day of their new year give sumptuous enter- tainments , and joyfully wish each other " a happy new year . ' This salutation is not yet obsolete even with us ; but the new year's gift seldom arrives ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 1 .
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... day ' s called Handsel Monday in some parts of Scotland , and is observed by merry inaking . In sir J. Sinclair's " Statistical Account , " it is related of one William Hunter , a collier , that he was ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 2 .
... day ' s called Handsel Monday in some parts of Scotland , and is observed by merry inaking . In sir J. Sinclair's " Statistical Account , " it is related of one William Hunter , a collier , that he was ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 2 .
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... day scarcely an anecdote is worth mentioning CHRONOLOGY . 1766. On the 9th of January died Dr. Thomas Birch , a valuable contributor to history and biography . He was born on the 23d of November ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 9 , 10 .
... day scarcely an anecdote is worth mentioning CHRONOLOGY . 1766. On the 9th of January died Dr. Thomas Birch , a valuable contributor to history and biography . He was born on the 23d of November ... EVERY - DAY BOOK . - JANUARY 9 , 10 .
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