The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men and Manners, Times and Seasons, Solemnities and Merry-makings, Antiquities and Novelties, on the Plan of the Every-day Book and Table Book, Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Customs, and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in Past and Present Times: Forming a Complete History of the Year; and a Perpetual Key to the Almanack |
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... seen and mistaken it for a fixed star , and so placed it in their catalogues . It is computed to be 1,800,000,000 of miles from the sun ; yet it can be seen without a glass , on clear nights , like a small star of the fifth magnitude ...
... seen and mistaken it for a fixed star , and so placed it in their catalogues . It is computed to be 1,800,000,000 of miles from the sun ; yet it can be seen without a glass , on clear nights , like a small star of the fifth magnitude ...
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... seen in the morning , with his sack and measure , crying small - coal ; and in the evening conducting a concert in his rooms , which were almost too low for his guests . So great was the attrac- tion of his music - meetings that men of ...
... seen in the morning , with his sack and measure , crying small - coal ; and in the evening conducting a concert in his rooms , which were almost too low for his guests . So great was the attrac- tion of his music - meetings that men of ...
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... seen to meet , the co This is all I remember of the custom , and probably I should not have recol- lected so much , had not the frolic , and the hobgoblin face of Laithwaye Oates been connected with it . I left Longridge Fell a few ...
... seen to meet , the co This is all I remember of the custom , and probably I should not have recol- lected so much , had not the frolic , and the hobgoblin face of Laithwaye Oates been connected with it . I left Longridge Fell a few ...
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