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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... means the reader will be ac- quainted with legends that rendered the saints and the celebration of their festivals popular . For example , the saints in Butler's Lives on this day occur in the following order : St. Fulgentius ; St ...
... means the reader will be ac- quainted with legends that rendered the saints and the celebration of their festivals popular . For example , the saints in Butler's Lives on this day occur in the following order : St. Fulgentius ; St ...
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... means , in plain words , " You owe me a new year's gift . " point of great emulation is , who shall salute the other first ; because the one who does so is entitled to a gift from the person saluted . Breakfast , consisting of all ...
... means , in plain words , " You owe me a new year's gift . " point of great emulation is , who shall salute the other first ; because the one who does so is entitled to a gift from the person saluted . Breakfast , consisting of all ...
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... means un- 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 ...
... means un- 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 ...
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... means— it was impossible . He derived , however , a solution of these " impossibilities " from the late Mr. J. B ——— , at his residence in Southampton - street , Camberwell , to- wards the close of the year 1817. Mr. B▭▭▭▭▭▭ said ...
... means— it was impossible . He derived , however , a solution of these " impossibilities " from the late Mr. J. B ——— , at his residence in Southampton - street , Camberwell , to- wards the close of the year 1817. Mr. B▭▭▭▭▭▭ said ...
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... means adequate to resist the intense cold of a winter's night : a bud detached from its stem , enclosed in glass , and thus protect- ed from all access of external air , if sug- pended from a tree during a sharp frost , will be entirely ...
... means adequate to resist the intense cold of a winter's night : a bud detached from its stem , enclosed in glass , and thus protect- ed from all access of external air , if sug- pended from a tree during a sharp frost , will be entirely ...
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