The Year Book of Daily Recreation & Information: Concerning Remarkable Men & Manners, Times & Seasons, Solemnities & Merry-makings, Antiquities & Novelties, on the Plan of the Every Day Book & Table Book, Or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Customs, & Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred & Sixty-five Days, in Past & Present Times: Forming a Complete History of the Year; & a Perpetual Key to the Almanac |
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... feet , and that fierce mouth and drear , Answering the strain with downward drag austere ; Of the rich - headed lion , whose huge frown , All his great nature , gathering , seems to crown ; Then of cathedral , with its priestly height ...
... feet , and that fierce mouth and drear , Answering the strain with downward drag austere ; Of the rich - headed lion , whose huge frown , All his great nature , gathering , seems to crown ; Then of cathedral , with its priestly height ...
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... charlton about the first or second week : Prussian and dwarf imperial about the last week . Beans ; early mazagan and long pods about the first and last week . two or three feet high , and that they so- 13 14 THE YEAR BOOK - JANUARY .
... charlton about the first or second week : Prussian and dwarf imperial about the last week . Beans ; early mazagan and long pods about the first and last week . two or three feet high , and that they so- 13 14 THE YEAR BOOK - JANUARY .
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... feet nine inches , and there fixed . 45 His waistcoat of blue satin , slashed , and ornamented with pinked white silk , and his breeches and stockings , in one piece of blue satin , are preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford ...
... feet nine inches , and there fixed . 45 His waistcoat of blue satin , slashed , and ornamented with pinked white silk , and his breeches and stockings , in one piece of blue satin , are preserved in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford ...
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... feet high , and that they so- lemnly set themselves in battle to fight against the cranes . " Strabo thought this a fiction ; and our age , which has fully discovered all the wonders of the world , as fully declares it to be one ...
... feet high , and that they so- lemnly set themselves in battle to fight against the cranes . " Strabo thought this a fiction ; and our age , which has fully discovered all the wonders of the world , as fully declares it to be one ...
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... feet high . fection of the apothecaries can equal their excellent virtue . But these delights are in the outward senses ; the principal delight is in the mind , singularly enriched with the knowledge of these visible things , setting ...
... feet high . fection of the apothecaries can equal their excellent virtue . But these delights are in the outward senses ; the principal delight is in the mind , singularly enriched with the knowledge of these visible things , setting ...
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