New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 1Churton, 1847 |
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... reason , I feel and must acknowledge my own inability to deal with them . Such facts as patient research , and tolerably extensive reading have enabled me to elicit , I have advanced honestly and fearlessly , without enquiring whither ...
... reason , I feel and must acknowledge my own inability to deal with them . Such facts as patient research , and tolerably extensive reading have enabled me to elicit , I have advanced honestly and fearlessly , without enquiring whither ...
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... reasons , it seems yet harder to say why the Christians should have chosen this month in the early ages as the commence- ment of their year . Baronius , in his Martyrology , sup- poses that they did so because about this time Christ was ...
... reasons , it seems yet harder to say why the Christians should have chosen this month in the early ages as the commence- ment of their year . Baronius , in his Martyrology , sup- poses that they did so because about this time Christ was ...
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... reason of such an observance , to which the communicative God replies , leaning familiarly on his stick as one disposed for a gossip , omens are attached to the commencement of all things ; it is the first sound you hear , the first ...
... reason of such an observance , to which the communicative God replies , leaning familiarly on his stick as one disposed for a gossip , omens are attached to the commencement of all things ; it is the first sound you hear , the first ...
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... reason the strenæ , or new - year's gifts , were forbidden by the Council of Auxerre in 614 , which stigmatized them as diabolical ; but though these prohibitions do not appear to have done much good at the time , yet they have taught ...
... reason the strenæ , or new - year's gifts , were forbidden by the Council of Auxerre in 614 , which stigmatized them as diabolical ; but though these prohibitions do not appear to have done much good at the time , yet they have taught ...
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... reason for this appel- lation . He says , “ I shall mention one law with relation to holydays , by virtue of which the twelve days after the Nativity of our Saviour are made holydays . " § There is certainly nothing improbable in the ...
... reason for this appel- lation . He says , “ I shall mention one law with relation to holydays , by virtue of which the twelve days after the Nativity of our Saviour are made holydays . " § There is certainly nothing improbable in the ...
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