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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... ancient mythology , Janus was the god of gates and avenues , and in that character held a key in his right hand , and a rod in his left , to sym- bolize his opening and ruling the year : sometimes he bore the number 300 in one hand ...
... ancient mythology , Janus was the god of gates and avenues , and in that character held a key in his right hand , and a rod in his left , to sym- bolize his opening and ruling the year : sometimes he bore the number 300 in one hand ...
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... ancient forests , impelled by Aunger at this season , were wont to prowl and attack man himself ; the inferior ani- mals , on whom they usually preyed , having retired or perisher . from the inclemency of the weather . The Saxons also ...
... ancient forests , impelled by Aunger at this season , were wont to prowl and attack man himself ; the inferior ani- mals , on whom they usually preyed , having retired or perisher . from the inclemency of the weather . The Saxons also ...
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... ancient literature , he sullied his fame by the grossest immorality in some of his finest productions . Livy , the Roman historian , died at Padua Ovid . His history of the Roman Empire on the same day and in the same year with was in ...
... ancient literature , he sullied his fame by the grossest immorality in some of his finest productions . Livy , the Roman historian , died at Padua Ovid . His history of the Roman Empire on the same day and in the same year with was in ...
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... Ancient Scotish Poems , " contain a letter from sir Thomas Ran- dolph , queen Elizabeth's chamberlain of the Exchequer , to Dudley lord Leicester , dated from Edinburgh on the 15th Janu- ary , 1563 , wherein he mentions , that Lady ...
... Ancient Scotish Poems , " contain a letter from sir Thomas Ran- dolph , queen Elizabeth's chamberlain of the Exchequer , to Dudley lord Leicester , dated from Edinburgh on the 15th Janu- ary , 1563 , wherein he mentions , that Lady ...
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... ancient Greeks and Romans , who , on the festival days of Saturn , about this season of the year , VOL . I. drew lots for kingdom and like kings exercised their temporary authority . " In- deed , it appears , that the question is almost ...
... ancient Greeks and Romans , who , on the festival days of Saturn , about this season of the year , VOL . I. drew lots for kingdom and like kings exercised their temporary authority . " In- deed , it appears , that the question is almost ...
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