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... according to Ovid , by her power opens or shuts all things . * Amongst our Saxon ancestors this month had various names , and all of them much more appropriate than the one we have borrowed , and retained , from the Romans .
... according to Ovid , by her power opens or shuts all things . * Amongst our Saxon ancestors this month had various names , and all of them much more appropriate than the one we have borrowed , and retained , from the Romans .
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... some rise two hours before sun - set ; others at dif- ferent periods of the day : and others again , according to Cuvier , never see the sun , being born after he has set , and dying before he again appears on the horizon . far ...
... some rise two hours before sun - set ; others at dif- ferent periods of the day : and others again , according to Cuvier , never see the sun , being born after he has set , and dying before he again appears on the horizon . far ...
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... and the mowing of the grass , which of course begins at different times according to the place and weather ; but we may assume about the twentieth as being the average period in the southern and midland counties .
... and the mowing of the grass , which of course begins at different times according to the place and weather ; but we may assume about the twentieth as being the average period in the southern and midland counties .
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Still less can I agree with Moresin , * that this custom is a relic of the ordeal , according to which he who passed safely through the flames was held to be innocent ; for the bon- fires are a much more ancient observance than the ...
Still less can I agree with Moresin , * that this custom is a relic of the ordeal , according to which he who passed safely through the flames was held to be innocent ; for the bon- fires are a much more ancient observance than the ...
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The Church , too , had its own version of the matter , and one not a jot more rational than the popular belief , the wheels according to the priests signi- fying that the fame of St. John , who had been falsely * Mixt Contemplations of ...
The Church , too , had its own version of the matter , and one not a jot more rational than the popular belief , the wheels according to the priests signi- fying that the fame of St. John , who had been falsely * Mixt Contemplations of ...
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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 | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Цифровизирана на | 27 септ. 2012 |
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