New Curiosities of Literature & Book of the Months, Том 2Churton, 1847 |
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... 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 . It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pas ...
... 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 . It was called Weydmonath , from the German weiden , to pas ...
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... things that this month is striking . The eglantine and woodbine have superseded the blossom of the hawthorn ; the full concert of the birds is on the de- cline , and in two or three weeks will almost entirely cease till the autumn ...
... things that this month is striking . The eglantine and woodbine have superseded the blossom of the hawthorn ; the full concert of the birds is on the de- cline , and in two or three weeks will almost entirely cease till the autumn ...
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... thing at least is certain , -in the time of Roman Catholic pre- dominance it used to be celebrated with flowers , and lights , and music , and with the theatrical performances . of those days , which have come down to us under the name ...
... thing at least is certain , -in the time of Roman Catholic pre- dominance it used to be celebrated with flowers , and lights , and music , and with the theatrical performances . of those days , which have come down to us under the name ...
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... thing like a rational derivation to the word mid . In old English , as in the German mit , from which it may have been derived , mid signified with , and adopting Horne Tooke's mode of viewing the prepositions , it had pos- sibly some ...
... thing like a rational derivation to the word mid . In old English , as in the German mit , from which it may have been derived , mid signified with , and adopting Horne Tooke's mode of viewing the prepositions , it had pos- sibly some ...
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... thing . The fires of course were intended , as Gebelin well observes , to express the joy of the people at the commencement of the year , for June in the early times was considered to be its commencement . But I cannot agree with him ...
... thing . The fires of course were intended , as Gebelin well observes , to express the joy of the people at the commencement of the year , for June in the early times was considered to be its commencement . But I cannot agree with him ...
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