Observations on Popular Antiquities Including the Whole of Mr. Bourne's Anti Quitates Vulgares Etc |
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... given to Man , in whom and through whom we may " receive Health and Salvation , but only the Name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST . Amen . 66 66 VII . " O LORD , unto thy gracious Mercy and " Protection we commit him . O GOD the Father , bless ...
... given to Man , in whom and through whom we may " receive Health and Salvation , but only the Name of our LORD JESUS CHRIST . Amen . 66 66 VII . " O LORD , unto thy gracious Mercy and " Protection we commit him . O GOD the Father , bless ...
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... given by a Bell on Accidents of Fire : -A Bell is rung at six every Morning ( except Sundays and Holidays ) with a view it should seem of calling up the Artisans to their daily Employ- ment ; and we retain also a Vestige of the old ...
... given by a Bell on Accidents of Fire : -A Bell is rung at six every Morning ( except Sundays and Holidays ) with a view it should seem of calling up the Artisans to their daily Employ- ment ; and we retain also a Vestige of the old ...
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... given here to this watching with a Corpse . It is called the Lakewake ; a Word plainly derived from the Anglo - Saxon Lic or Lice , a Corpse , and Wæcce , a Wake , Vigil , or Watching . It is used in this Sense by Chaucer , in his ...
... given here to this watching with a Corpse . It is called the Lakewake ; a Word plainly derived from the Anglo - Saxon Lic or Lice , a Corpse , and Wæcce , a Wake , Vigil , or Watching . It is used in this Sense by Chaucer , in his ...
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... given us in Proof of the Antiquity of the Custom They are indeed something to the Pur- pose ; but in the last cited Passage , one would be inclined to think from the Words of the Original , that the Watching was on Account of its being ...
... given us in Proof of the Antiquity of the Custom They are indeed something to the Pur- pose ; but in the last cited Passage , one would be inclined to think from the Words of the Original , that the Watching was on Account of its being ...
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... given us an excellent Account of this vulgar Notion , in his 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 ...
... given us an excellent Account of this vulgar Notion , in his 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 ...
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