 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...from Jesus Christ. — Or, if they should have been bad Children, he gives the Parents a Rod, and iu the name of his Master, recommends them to use it...Children are let into the secret, and it is curious bow faithfully they keep k ! CHRISTMAS OUT OF DOORS. The whole Lake of Ratzeburg is one mass of thick... | |
 | 1827 - 452 pages
...recommends them to use it frequently. At the age ol seven or eight years old, the children are led into the secret, and it is curious how faithfully they keep it. In Rome, Christmas Day is celebrated with great pomp ; his Holiness performs mass in Hebrew, Greek,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1824 - 514 pages
...from the parent, he gives them the intended present, as if they came out of Heaven from Jesus Christ. Or, if they should have been bad children, he gives...secret, and it is curious how faithfully they keep it.' Of the celebration of Christmas Eve and Day at Rome, we are enabled to furnish our readers with a lively... | |
 | William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...from the parents, he gives them the intended present, as if they came out of heaven from Jesus Christ. Or, if they should have been bad children, he gives...secret, and it is curious how faithfully they keep it." A correspondent to the " Genllemart's Magazine," says, that when he was a school-boy, it was a practice... | |
 | English essays - 1828 - 714 pages
...from the parents, he gives them the intended present, as if they came out of Heaven from Jesus Christ. Or, if they should have been bad children, he gives...secret, and it is curious how faithfully they keep it. In Spain it was formerly a general custom, at Christmas, among people of family, to prepare for an... | |
 | 1834 - 508 pages
...the parents, he gives them the intended presents, as if they came out of Heaven from Jesus Christ. Or, if they should have been bad children, he gives...secret, and it is curious how faithfully they keep it."* Christmas carols are still sung in Irelnnd. In Scotland, where no church feasts have been kept since... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1838 - 414 pages
...from the parents, he gives them the intended present, as if they came out of heaven from Jesus Christ. Or if they should have been bad children, he gives...and it is curious how faithfully they keep it" The bough mentioned by Coleridge as yew, is by other writers said to be of birch. The Christ-child is said... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 514 pages
...name of his master, recommends them to use it frequently. About seven or eight years old the childrcn are let into the secret, and it is curious how faithfully...is a singular passage in Jhone Hamilton's "Facile Treactisc," quoted by Dr. Jamieson, which, while it affords a proof of the traditionary antipathy to... | |
 | 1847 - 436 pages
...from the parents, he gives them the intended present, as if they came out of heaven from JESUS CHRIST. Or, if they should have been bad children, he gives...secret, and it is curious how faithfully they keep it. RKLIOIOtS OBSERVANCES. " On Christmas Eve the mass w:is sung; T Imt only night in all the year Saw... | |
 | English literature - 1847 - 446 pages
...from the parents, he gives them the intended present, as if they came out of heaven from JESUS CHRIST. Or, if they should have been bad children, he gives...secret, and it is curious how faithfully they keep it. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES. " On Christmas Eve the mass wns snug ; That only night in all the year Saw the... | |
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He then inquires for the children, and according to the character which he hears from the parent, he gives them the intended present, as if they came out of heaven from Jesus Christ. Or, if they should have been bad children, he gives the parents a rod,... 
