New Curiosities of Literature: And Book of the Months, Том 2E. Churton, 1849 |
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... passing its greatest height , and that LIDA ERRA consequently means the first month of the sun's descent . Lida is by some deemed the same as set - lift or smooth - air . " - Sayer's Disquisitions , p . 255 . earliest , or Orange Lily ...
... passing its greatest height , and that LIDA ERRA consequently means the first month of the sun's descent . Lida is by some deemed the same as set - lift or smooth - air . " - Sayer's Disquisitions , p . 255 . earliest , or Orange Lily ...
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... passing breeze . But the two most particular features of the month are the sheep - shearing , which commences when the warm weather appears to be settled , and the mowing of the grass , which of course begins at different times ...
... passing breeze . But the two most particular features of the month are the sheep - shearing , which commences when the warm weather appears to be settled , and the mowing of the grass , which of course begins at different times ...
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... passed safely through the flames was held to be innocent ; for the bon- fires are a much more ancient observance than the ordeal . It is , I should rather imagine , a religious rite of very remote origin , such as I have already spoken ...
... passed safely through the flames was held to be innocent ; for the bon- fires are a much more ancient observance than the ordeal . It is , I should rather imagine , a religious rite of very remote origin , such as I have already spoken ...
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... passed through the principal streets thereof . The whole way for this marching watch extendeth to three thousand two hundred tailor's yards of assize ; for the furniture whereof with lights there were appointed seven hundred cressets ...
... passed through the principal streets thereof . The whole way for this marching watch extendeth to three thousand two hundred tailor's yards of assize ; for the furniture whereof with lights there were appointed seven hundred cressets ...
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... passing by him , the waits of the city , the mayor's officers for his guard before , all in a livery of worsted or ... passed through London to West- * A jornet is a surtout or wrapper , from the French journade , which Roquefort , in ...
... passing by him , the waits of the city , the mayor's officers for his guard before , all in a livery of worsted or ... passed through London to West- * A jornet is a surtout or wrapper , from the French journade , which Roquefort , in ...
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Страница 85 - Masons have a great regard to the reputation as well as profit of their order ; since they make it one reason for not divulging an art in common that it may do honour to the possessors of it. I think in this particular they show too much regard for their own society, and too little for the rest of mankind.
Страница 285 - Moreover, the number and hardness of the rules called the pie, and the manifold changings of the service, was the cause, that to turn the book only, was so hard and intricate a matter, that many times there was more business to find out what should be read, than to read it when it was found out.
Страница 28 - Man told me, that they were looking for a Coal under the Root of a Plantain, to put under their Heads that Night, and they should Dream who would be their Husbands : It was to be found that Day, and Hour.
Страница 14 - These were called bonfires as well of good amity amongst neighbours that, being before at controversy, were there by the labour of others reconciled, and made of bitter enemies, loving friends, as also for the virtue that a great fire hath to purge the infection of the air.