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John Brand. FROM IB TION ON Popular Antiquities : : Including the whole of Mr. BOURNE's Antiquitates Uulgares , WITH ADDENDA TO EVERY CHAPTER OF THAT WORK : AS ALSO AN APPENDIX , Containing such Articles on the Subject , as have been ...
John Brand. FROM IB TION ON Popular Antiquities : : Including the whole of Mr. BOURNE's Antiquitates Uulgares , WITH ADDENDA TO EVERY CHAPTER OF THAT WORK : AS ALSO AN APPENDIX , Containing such Articles on the Subject , as have been ...
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... Antiquity . They have indeed travelled down to us through a long Succession of Years , and the greatest part of them , it is not improbable , will be of perpetual Observation : for the generality of Men look back with superstitious Vene ...
... Antiquity . They have indeed travelled down to us through a long Succession of Years , and the greatest part of them , it is not improbable , will be of perpetual Observation : for the generality of Men look back with superstitious Vene ...
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... Antiquity , is , that they have out - lived the general Knowledge of the very Causes that gave rise to them . The Reader will find in the subsequent pages an union of Endeavours to rescue many of these Causes from Obli- vion . If , on ...
... Antiquity , is , that they have out - lived the general Knowledge of the very Causes that gave rise to them . The Reader will find in the subsequent pages an union of Endeavours to rescue many of these Causes from Obli- vion . If , on ...
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John Brand. Shame to apologize for the seeming Unimportance of my Subject . The Antiquities of the Common People cannot be stu- died without acquiring some useful Knowledge of Man- kind . By the chemical Process of Philosophy ; even ...
John Brand. Shame to apologize for the seeming Unimportance of my Subject . The Antiquities of the Common People cannot be stu- died without acquiring some useful Knowledge of Man- kind . By the chemical Process of Philosophy ; even ...
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John Brand. Antiquitates Vulgares ; OR , THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE Common People . GIVING An Account of several of their OPI- NIONS and CEREMONIES . WITH Proper REFLECTIONS upon each of them ; shewing which may be retain'd , and which ought ...
John Brand. Antiquitates Vulgares ; OR , THE ANTIQUITIES OF THE Common People . GIVING An Account of several of their OPI- NIONS and CEREMONIES . WITH Proper REFLECTIONS upon each of them ; shewing which may be retain'd , and which ought ...
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