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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... common for a man of 8,000 or 10,000 francs a year to make presents on new year's day which cost him a fifteenth part of his income . No person able to give must on this day pay a visit empty - handed Every body accepts , and every man ...
... common for a man of 8,000 or 10,000 francs a year to make presents on new year's day which cost him a fifteenth part of his income . No person able to give must on this day pay a visit empty - handed Every body accepts , and every man ...
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... common to both customs , leaves scarcely the possibility of doubt that ours is a continuation of the heathen practice under another name . Yet " some of the observances on this day are the remains of Druidical , and other supersti ...
... common to both customs , leaves scarcely the possibility of doubt that ours is a continuation of the heathen practice under another name . Yet " some of the observances on this day are the remains of Druidical , and other supersti ...
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... Common , near Brixton - causeway , where she would en- deavour to make her as happy as she could , hoping by this time all was over , as nothing had happened at that gentle- man's house while she was there . This was about two o'clock ...
... Common , near Brixton - causeway , where she would en- deavour to make her as happy as she could , hoping by this time all was over , as nothing had happened at that gentle- man's house while she was there . This was about two o'clock ...
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... common cow's - horn , which he blew to encourage his team , and give notice of this new mode of posting . Let us turn away for a moment from the credulity and eccentricity of man's feebleness and folly , to the contemplation of " the ...
... common cow's - horn , which he blew to encourage his team , and give notice of this new mode of posting . Let us turn away for a moment from the credulity and eccentricity of man's feebleness and folly , to the contemplation of " the ...
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... common centre , elevate their snouts , lash their tails , and jostle one another with such violence , that on a first view they actually seem to be menacing an attack on the poor fisherman , in place of the creel fuil of limpets he ...
... common centre , elevate their snouts , lash their tails , and jostle one another with such violence , that on a first view they actually seem to be menacing an attack on the poor fisherman , in place of the creel fuil of limpets he ...
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