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... seem to some , yet all must be informed that it is attended with no small share of Difficulty and Toil . A Passage is to be forced through a Wilderness intri- cate and entangled : few Vestiges of former Labours can be found to direct us ...
... seem to some , yet all must be informed that it is attended with no small share of Difficulty and Toil . A Passage is to be forced through a Wilderness intri- cate and entangled : few Vestiges of former Labours can be found to direct us ...
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... seem * I shall quote here the subsequent curious Thoughts on this Sub- - ject : the Puritans are ridiculed in them . These teach that Dancing is a ' Jezabell , And Barley break the ready Way to Hell ; The Morrice Idols , Whitsun - ales ...
... seem * I shall quote here the subsequent curious Thoughts on this Sub- - ject : the Puritans are ridiculed in them . These teach that Dancing is a ' Jezabell , And Barley break the ready Way to Hell ; The Morrice Idols , Whitsun - ales ...
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... seem very harmless , being a Scandal to Religion , and an encouraging of Wickedness . And therefore to aim at abolishing these , will I hope be no Crime , tho ' they be the Di- versions of the People . As to the Opinions they hold ...
... seem very harmless , being a Scandal to Religion , and an encouraging of Wickedness . And therefore to aim at abolishing these , will I hope be no Crime , tho ' they be the Di- versions of the People . As to the Opinions they hold ...
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... seems rather true , that we are protected by a Number of Angels , than by one parti- cular Genius . 320 CHAP . XXX . Of the Country Wake : How observed formerly : A Custom of the Heathens , and regulated by Gregory the Great . 329 CHAP ...
... seems rather true , that we are protected by a Number of Angels , than by one parti- cular Genius . 320 CHAP . XXX . Of the Country Wake : How observed formerly : A Custom of the Heathens , and regulated by Gregory the Great . 329 CHAP ...
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... seems to be as ancient as the having of Bells themselves ; we are told , * it was about the seventh Century when Bells were first in the Church , and that venerable Bede is the first that mentions them . If this be true , then it is as ...
... seems to be as ancient as the having of Bells themselves ; we are told , * it was about the seventh Century when Bells were first in the Church , and that venerable Bede is the first that mentions them . If this be true , then it is as ...
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