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Macrobius * tells us that it was so named either * Junius Maium sequitur , aut ex parte populi , ut supra diximus , nominatus ; aut , ut Cincius arbitratur , quod Junonius apud Latinos ante vocitatus , diuque apud Aricinos ...
Macrobius * tells us that it was so named either * Junius Maium sequitur , aut ex parte populi , ut supra diximus , nominatus ; aut , ut Cincius arbitratur , quod Junonius apud Latinos ante vocitatus , diuque apud Aricinos ...
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In Cornwall the day was anciently called Goluan , a word , as Borlase tells us , expressive both of light and joy , * while in other parts of the west they had the name of Blessing Fires , a tolerably plain hint of their religious ...
In Cornwall the day was anciently called Goluan , a word , as Borlase tells us , expressive both of light and joy , * while in other parts of the west they had the name of Blessing Fires , a tolerably plain hint of their religious ...
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... as we are told by the poets and historians , was exhibiting the household Gods , crowning and adorning them with chaplets and garlands of flowers , and offering sacrifices up and down the streets . Suetonius tells us that ...
... as we are told by the poets and historians , was exhibiting the household Gods , crowning and adorning them with chaplets and garlands of flowers , and offering sacrifices up and down the streets . Suetonius tells us that ...
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Whiffle again is derived from whiff , which means , as Junius tells us , a sudden puff of wind , ( flatus subitus et vehemens ) but he seems not to be quite satisfied with his own explanation , for he refers us to Otfred's poem ...
Whiffle again is derived from whiff , which means , as Junius tells us , a sudden puff of wind , ( flatus subitus et vehemens ) but he seems not to be quite satisfied with his own explanation , for he refers us to Otfred's poem ...
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I should hardly have thought this word needed any explanation but that it has pleased Todd in his edition of Johnson's Dictionary to tell us it is deduced from the French soie , and means a thin sort of silk .
I should hardly have thought this word needed any explanation but that it has pleased Todd in his edition of Johnson's Dictionary to tell us it is deduced from the French soie , and means a thin sort of silk .
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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 | Харвардският университет |
| Цифровизирана на | 2 септ. 2008 |
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