Observations on Popular Antiquities: Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Antiquitates Vulgares, with Addenda to Every Chapter of that Work: as Also an Appendix Containing Such Articles on the Subject as Have Been Omitted by that AuthorVernor, Hood and Sharpe ..., James Cundee ..., and W. Baynes, 1810 - Christian antiquities - 471 pages |
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... but as they are an Indication of the sincerest Thankfulness and Gratitude of , 3 GENTLEMEN , Your most obliged Most obedient And most humble Servant , HENRY BOURNE . b THE PREFACE . THE following Sheets are a few of DEDICATION . xvii.
... but as they are an Indication of the sincerest Thankfulness and Gratitude of , 3 GENTLEMEN , Your most obliged Most obedient And most humble Servant , HENRY BOURNE . b THE PREFACE . THE following Sheets are a few of DEDICATION . xvii.
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... Servant depart in Peace : Or to use the Words of St. Oswald , when he and his Sol- diers were ready to be slain , Lord , have Mercy on the Soul of thy * Servant . It will not be Jong , till thou thyself shalt have Occasion for such ...
... Servant depart in Peace : Or to use the Words of St. Oswald , when he and his Sol- diers were ready to be slain , Lord , have Mercy on the Soul of thy * Servant . It will not be Jong , till thou thyself shalt have Occasion for such ...
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... Servant " into thy Hands , thy most merciful Hands : " Let thy blessed Angels stand in Ministry " about thy Servant , and defend him from " the Violence and Malice of all his ghostly " Enemies : And drive far from him all the Spirits of ...
... Servant " into thy Hands , thy most merciful Hands : " Let thy blessed Angels stand in Ministry " about thy Servant , and defend him from " the Violence and Malice of all his ghostly " Enemies : And drive far from him all the Spirits of ...
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... Servant of the Prophet Elisha , That they who be with us , are more than they who are against us . No Matter then whe- ther the Spirits of the Night go away , or only Quia filiis lucis & in noctibus dies est . Quando enim sine lumine ...
... Servant of the Prophet Elisha , That they who be with us , are more than they who are against us . No Matter then whe- ther the Spirits of the Night go away , or only Quia filiis lucis & in noctibus dies est . Quando enim sine lumine ...
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... Servants of Abimeleck , He * called Beer - sheba , or the Well of the Oath , because there they sware both of them . Thus also Isaac , when his Herdsmen had found a Well , and the Herdsmen of Gerar had a Con- test with them about the ...
... Servants of Abimeleck , He * called Beer - sheba , or the Well of the Oath , because there they sware both of them . Thus also Isaac , when his Herdsmen had found a Well , and the Herdsmen of Gerar had a Con- test with them about the ...
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