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Properly speaking , Midsummer Day denotes the time of the summer solstice , and is not , as many from its name have supposed , connected at all with the idea of middle , though it seems hardly possible ...
Properly speaking , Midsummer Day denotes the time of the summer solstice , and is not , as many from its name have supposed , connected at all with the idea of middle , though it seems hardly possible ...
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The notion of lighting fires to keep off the dragons bears , or seems to bear , a striking analogy to the old solstitial creed , as typified by Hercules slaying the dragons . This matter has been well ex- plained by Gebelin .
The notion of lighting fires to keep off the dragons bears , or seems to bear , a striking analogy to the old solstitial creed , as typified by Hercules slaying the dragons . This matter has been well ex- plained by Gebelin .
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The more probable explana- tion seems to be that of Dr. Hickes , and which has been adopted by Lye in the ETYMOLOGICON of Junius - namely , that it was derived from the Anglo - Saxon - bælfyr , a burning pile , by the change of a single ...
The more probable explana- tion seems to be that of Dr. Hickes , and which has been adopted by Lye in the ETYMOLOGICON of Junius - namely , that it was derived from the Anglo - Saxon - bælfyr , a burning pile , by the change of a single ...
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Either etymology seems to me improbable . I should be much more inclined to seek for the origin of the word , as Minshew has done , in the Belgic KAERSE , candela , lychnus , which at all events describes the cresset whatever form it ...
Either etymology seems to me improbable . I should be much more inclined to seek for the origin of the word , as Minshew has done , in the Belgic KAERSE , candela , lychnus , which at all events describes the cresset whatever form it ...
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... but not a grain of common sense , and who seems sword - players , trumpeters on horseback , demilances on THE MONTHS - JUNE . 19.
... but not a grain of common sense , and who seems sword - players , trumpeters on horseback , demilances on THE MONTHS - JUNE . 19.
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| Заглавие | New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 2 New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, George Soane |
| Автор | George Soane |
| Издател | Churton, 1847 |
| Оригиналът е от | Лионската обществена библиотека |
| Цифровизирана на | 30 септ. 2010 |
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