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 Author |
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Page iv
... first perceived to flow . Few , who are defirous of inveftigating the popular No- tions and vulgar Ceremonies in our Nation , can fail of de- ducing them in their first Direction from the Times when Popery was our established Religion ...
... first perceived to flow . Few , who are defirous of inveftigating the popular No- tions and vulgar Ceremonies in our Nation , can fail of de- ducing them in their first Direction from the Times when Popery was our established Religion ...
Page v
... first Promulgation of Chriftianity to the Gentile Nations , through the Force of Conviction they yielded indeed to Truth ; yet they could not be perfuaded to relin- quifh many of their Superftitions , which , rather than forego them ...
... first Promulgation of Chriftianity to the Gentile Nations , through the Force of Conviction they yielded indeed to Truth ; yet they could not be perfuaded to relin- quifh many of their Superftitions , which , rather than forego them ...
Page viii
... first who felt the Weight of this new and unneceffary Yoke , and had Spirit enough to throw it off . I have fortunately in my Poffeffion one of thofe antient Romish Calendars of fingular Curiofity , which contains un- der the immoveable ...
... first who felt the Weight of this new and unneceffary Yoke , and had Spirit enough to throw it off . I have fortunately in my Poffeffion one of thofe antient Romish Calendars of fingular Curiofity , which contains un- der the immoveable ...
Page xv
... First - Fruits of my Labours at your Feet ; hoping that as you have been very inftrumental in occafioning them , fo you will receive them under your Care and Protection , AND this I also hope for , not as they are a Work of Merit , or ...
... First - Fruits of my Labours at your Feet ; hoping that as you have been very inftrumental in occafioning them , fo you will receive them under your Care and Protection , AND this I also hope for , not as they are a Work of Merit , or ...
Page xvii
... first Institution . CHA P. II Of Watching with the Dead . CHA P. III . Page 1 20 Of following the Corps to the Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may fignifie ; what Ufe it may be of : Of Pfalmody ...
... first Institution . CHA P. II Of Watching with the Dead . CHA P. III . Page 1 20 Of following the Corps to the Grave ; what it is an Emblem of : Of carrying Greens in our Hand ; what it may fignifie ; what Ufe it may be of : Of Pfalmody ...
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