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... Places to refer : but I own myself under par- ticular Obligations to Durand's Ritual of Divine Offices ; a Work inimical to every Idea of rational Worship , but to the Enquirer into the Origin of our popular Cere- monies , an invaluable ...
... Places to refer : but I own myself under par- ticular Obligations to Durand's Ritual of Divine Offices ; a Work inimical to every Idea of rational Worship , but to the Enquirer into the Origin of our popular Cere- monies , an invaluable ...
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... Places it is extremely difficult to render the very barbarous Latin , of which I fear the Critic will think I have transfused the Barbarity , Brevity , and Obscurity into my own English ) and lay before my Reader , who will at once see ...
... Places it is extremely difficult to render the very barbarous Latin , of which I fear the Critic will think I have transfused the Barbarity , Brevity , and Obscurity into my own English ) and lay before my Reader , who will at once see ...
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... Place , to persuade us that nothing can be foreign to our Enquiry , which con- cerns the smallest of the Vulgar ; of those little ones , who occupy the lowest Place in the political Arrangement of human Beings . Westgate Street ...
... Place , to persuade us that nothing can be foreign to our Enquiry , which con- cerns the smallest of the Vulgar ; of those little ones , who occupy the lowest Place in the political Arrangement of human Beings . Westgate Street ...
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... Places to be afraid of . 83 CHAP VIII . Of visiting Wells and Fountains : The Original of this Custom : The naming of them of great Antiquity : The Worship paid them by the Papists , was gross Idolatry . CHAP . IX . 90 Of Omens : Their ...
... Places to be afraid of . 83 CHAP VIII . Of visiting Wells and Fountains : The Original of this Custom : The naming of them of great Antiquity : The Worship paid them by the Papists , was gross Idolatry . CHAP . IX . 90 Of Omens : Their ...
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... Place of Bede , says , That * the same Custom is still observed in England , that as soon as any hath departed this Life , the Bell belonging to the Parish he liv'd in , was immediately tolled , and for some Time . - And though ( says ...
... Place of Bede , says , That * the same Custom is still observed in England , that as soon as any hath departed this Life , the Bell belonging to the Parish he liv'd in , was immediately tolled , and for some Time . - And though ( says ...
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