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... horns proclaimed liberty throughout the whole land ; whatever debt the He- brews owed to one another was to be wholly remitted ; hired as well as bond - servants were set free ; and the inheritances that had been alienated reverted to ...
... horns proclaimed liberty throughout the whole land ; whatever debt the He- brews owed to one another was to be wholly remitted ; hired as well as bond - servants were set free ; and the inheritances that had been alienated reverted to ...
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... horn and carry their hawk fair , and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people . " We have young patricians of the present day who act up to the spirit of this diction ; while we have sapient gray- beards in the same ...
... horn and carry their hawk fair , and leave study and learning to the children of meaner people . " We have young patricians of the present day who act up to the spirit of this diction ; while we have sapient gray- beards in the same ...
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... horns , to gather branches of nose- gays , to return home about sunrise to deck their doors and windows with garlands , and to spend the afternoon in danc- ing around the May - pole , which , being placed in some conspicuous part of the ...
... horns , to gather branches of nose- gays , to return home about sunrise to deck their doors and windows with garlands , and to spend the afternoon in danc- ing around the May - pole , which , being placed in some conspicuous part of the ...
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... horns garlanded with flowers , with which , as well as with branches , flags , and streamers , the pole itself was profusely wreathed and decked . When it was reared up , arbours and bowers were formed beneath it , the ground was ...
... horns garlanded with flowers , with which , as well as with branches , flags , and streamers , the pole itself was profusely wreathed and decked . When it was reared up , arbours and bowers were formed beneath it , the ground was ...
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Horace Smith. more addicted to riding , hunting , hawking , and blowing the horn than to the performance of their religious duties . There must have been good ground for this censure , for in the thirteenth year of Richard II . an edict ...
Horace Smith. more addicted to riding , hunting , hawking , and blowing the horn than to the performance of their religious duties . There must have been good ground for this censure , for in the thirteenth year of Richard II . an edict ...
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Page 292 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given.
Page 125 - In the month of May, namely, on May-day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walk into the sweet meadows and green woods, there to rejoice their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet flowers, and with the harmony of birds, praising God in their kind...
Page 134 - Come, bring with a noise, My merry, merry boys, The Christmas log to the firing ; While my good dame, she Bids ye all be free, And drink to your hearts
Page 278 - Thine be the laurel, then; thy blooming age Can best, if any can, support the stage; Which so declines, that shortly we may see Players and plays reduced to second infancy. Sharp to the world, but thoughtless of renown, They plot not on the stage, but on the town, And, in despair, their empty pit to fill, Set up some foreign monster in a bill. Thus they jog on, still tricking, never thriving, And murdering plays, which they miscall reviving.
Page 123 - Come, let us go while we are in our prime, And take the harmless folly of the time We shall grow old apace, and die Before we know our liberty. Our life is short, and our days run As fast away as does the sun...
Page 25 - Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of heathenish manners, through the exceeding profaneness of Jason, that ungodly wretch, and no high-priest, that the priests had no courage to serve any more at the altar ; but despising the temple, and neglecting the sacrifices, hastened to be partakers of the unlawful allowance in the place of exercise, after the game of discus called them forth ; not setting by the honours of their fathers, but liking the glory of the Grecians best of all.
Page 121 - RULES TO KNOW WHEN THE MOVEABLE FEASTS AND HOLYDAYS BEGIN. EASTER DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after the Twenty-first Day of March ; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 135 - Box, or money gathered against that time, that masses might be made by the priests to the saints to forgive the people the debaucheries of that time : and from this, servants had the liberty to get box money, that they too might be enabled to pay the priest for his masses, knowing well the truth of the proverb : "No Penny, No Pater Noster."— Athenian Oracle, by Dunton, i., 360.
Page 145 - Her majesty," says a courtier, writing to Sir Robert Sidney, " is well and excellently disposed to hunting, for every second day she is on horseback and continues the sport long.
Page 296 - They then feast on the new* corn and fruits, and dance and sing for three days, " and the four following days they receive visits and rejoice with their friends from neighboring towns who have in like manner purified and prepared themselves.