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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... speaking of the May - games , Midsummer- Eve Rejoicings , & c . antiently used in the Streets of London , which open Pastimes in my Youth being now supprest , worse Practices within Doors are to be feared ) " may be with singular ...
... speaking of the May - games , Midsummer- Eve Rejoicings , & c . antiently used in the Streets of London , which open Pastimes in my Youth being now supprest , worse Practices within Doors are to be feared ) " may be with singular ...
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... speak it to have been the universal Opinion of the Church , is the ancient Custom of burying the Corpse , with the Feet to the East , and the Head to the West ; which Custom is conti- nued to this Day in the whole Church of England ...
... speak it to have been the universal Opinion of the Church , is the ancient Custom of burying the Corpse , with the Feet to the East , and the Head to the West ; which Custom is conti- nued to this Day in the whole Church of England ...
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... Tragedy of Hamlet . Ber . It was about to speak , when the Cock crew , Hor . And then it started like a guilty Thing Upon a dreadful Summons . I have heard , The The Cock that is the Trumpet to the Day , THE COMMON PEOPLE . 59 .
... Tragedy of Hamlet . Ber . It was about to speak , when the Cock crew , Hor . And then it started like a guilty Thing Upon a dreadful Summons . I have heard , The The Cock that is the Trumpet to the Day , THE COMMON PEOPLE . 59 .
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... speaking . Bru- tus boldly asked him , What art Thou ? Man , or God ? Or upon what Business do'st " thou come to us ? The Spirit answer'd , I am thy Evil Genius , thou shalt see me at Phi- 66 66 66 66 .66 lippi ; to which Brutus not at ...
... speaking . Bru- tus boldly asked him , What art Thou ? Man , or God ? Or upon what Business do'st " thou come to us ? The Spirit answer'd , I am thy Evil Genius , thou shalt see me at Phi- 66 66 66 66 .66 lippi ; to which Brutus not at ...
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... with too much Ditüidence in speaking of it .-- It must however be allowed , that Writers of the highest Character for Probity and Knowledge have trans- transmitted to us Accounts of Spirits and Appari- tions . 73 ANTIQUITIES OF.
... with too much Ditüidence in speaking of it .-- It must however be allowed , that Writers of the highest Character for Probity and Knowledge have trans- transmitted to us Accounts of Spirits and Appari- tions . 73 ANTIQUITIES OF.
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Page 148 - And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would : and they came unto him. 14 And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach...
Page 139 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD ; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Page 137 - ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, who hast given unto us thy servants grace, by the confession of a true faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal TRINITY, and in the power of the divine Majesty to worship the Unity...
Page 32 - O spare me a little, that I may recover my strength : before I go hence, and be no more seen.
Page 212 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment : for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 145 - Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort ; through the merits of Christ Jesus our Saviour, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen.
Page 146 - And he arose out of the synagogue, and entered into Simon's house. And Simon's wife's mother was taken with a great fever; and they besought him for her. 39 And he stood over her, and rebuked the fever; and it left her: and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.
Page 136 - The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof: the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas : and established it upon the floods.
Page 153 - And Zaccheus stood, and said unto the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Page 97 - And let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also...