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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... cock - crow : Whether evil spirits wan- der about in the time of night ; and whether they fly away at the time of cock - crow : Reflections upon this encouraging us to have faith and trust in God . 54 CHAP . VII . Of church - yards ...
... cock - crow : Whether evil spirits wan- der about in the time of night ; and whether they fly away at the time of cock - crow : Reflections upon this encouraging us to have faith and trust in God . 54 CHAP . VII . Of church - yards ...
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... cock - fighting . He would perhaps have talked in another strain , and have represented these aerial enemies as lending their assistance to ring them t . In the populous , Commercial Town , from whence I date these observations , church ...
... cock - fighting . He would perhaps have talked in another strain , and have represented these aerial enemies as lending their assistance to ring them t . In the populous , Commercial Town , from whence I date these observations , church ...
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... still buried on the north side ; or , as it is vulgarly cailed here , aback of the church , and that too not in a direction parallel to it , but athwart the regular line , CHAP . VI . Of the time of Cock - Chapter V. 58.
... still buried on the north side ; or , as it is vulgarly cailed here , aback of the church , and that too not in a direction parallel to it , but athwart the regular line , CHAP . VI . Of the time of Cock - Chapter V. 58.
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... Cock - crow ; Whether evil Spi- rits wander about in the time of night ; and whether they fly away at the time of Cock - crow . Reflections upon this , encour- aging us to have faith and trust in God . IT T is a received tradition among ...
... Cock - crow ; Whether evil Spi- rits wander about in the time of night ; and whether they fly away at the time of Cock - crow . Reflections upon this , encour- aging us to have faith and trust in God . IT T is a received tradition among ...
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... cock . Some say that e'er against that season comes , Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated , The bird of dawning singeth all night long . And then , they say , No spirit doth walk abroad , The nights are wholesome , then no planet ...
... cock . Some say that e'er against that season comes , Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated , The bird of dawning singeth all night long . And then , they say , No spirit doth walk abroad , The nights are wholesome , then no planet ...
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