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Page ii
... perhaps to return at last weary and unsatisfied , from the making of Researches , fruitless as those of some ancient enthusiastic Traveller , who rang- ing the barren African Sands , had in vain attempted to investigate the hidden ...
... perhaps to return at last weary and unsatisfied , from the making of Researches , fruitless as those of some ancient enthusiastic Traveller , who rang- ing the barren African Sands , had in vain attempted to investigate the hidden ...
Page vi
... perhaps we should be able to keep nothing . The Common People , confined by daily Labour , seem * I shall quote here the subsequent curious Thoughts on this Sub- - ject : the Puritans are ridiculed in them . These teach that Dancing is ...
... perhaps we should be able to keep nothing . The Common People , confined by daily Labour , seem * I shall quote here the subsequent curious Thoughts on this Sub- - ject : the Puritans are ridiculed in them . These teach that Dancing is ...
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John Brand. to require their proper Intervals of Relaxation ; perhaps it is of the highest political Utility to encourage Innocent Sports and Games among them . The revival of many of these , would , I think , be highly pertinent at this ...
John Brand. to require their proper Intervals of Relaxation ; perhaps it is of the highest political Utility to encourage Innocent Sports and Games among them . The revival of many of these , would , I think , be highly pertinent at this ...
Page viii
... perhaps , the sole Cause why they have never before been investigated . In perusing the subsequent Observations , the candid Reader , who has never before considered this neglected Subject , is requested not to be rash in passing ...
... perhaps , the sole Cause why they have never before been investigated . In perusing the subsequent Observations , the candid Reader , who has never before considered this neglected Subject , is requested not to be rash in passing ...
Page xix
... perhaps of universal Observance , yet at present they would have little or no Being , if not observed among the Vulgar . I would not be thought a Reviver of old Rites and Ceremonies to the Burdening of the People , nor an Abolisher of ...
... perhaps of universal Observance , yet at present they would have little or no Being , if not observed among the Vulgar . I would not be thought a Reviver of old Rites and Ceremonies to the Burdening of the People , nor an Abolisher of ...
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