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... perhaps the words of Combe himself : - " You might as well compare the pot - boiling composi- tion of The History of Buonaparte , in verse , compiled for the renowned Thomas Tegg , and obtruded upon the world as the production of Dr ...
... perhaps the words of Combe himself : - " You might as well compare the pot - boiling composi- tion of The History of Buonaparte , in verse , compiled for the renowned Thomas Tegg , and obtruded upon the world as the production of Dr ...
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... Perhaps I have expressed myself somewhat unguardedly in asserting that Beltein , or May - day , was the chief period of Druidic lustration , since the important festival of Hallow - eve was likewise attended with the rites of purifying ...
... Perhaps I have expressed myself somewhat unguardedly in asserting that Beltein , or May - day , was the chief period of Druidic lustration , since the important festival of Hallow - eve was likewise attended with the rites of purifying ...
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... perhaps worth permanent record in " N. & Q. , " either as a record of facts or as an opportunity for corrections , if any errors of description have occurred . ESTE . " GIPSY ENCAMPMENT AT KIDDERMINSTER . " A company of gipsies , very ...
... perhaps worth permanent record in " N. & Q. , " either as a record of facts or as an opportunity for corrections , if any errors of description have occurred . ESTE . " GIPSY ENCAMPMENT AT KIDDERMINSTER . " A company of gipsies , very ...
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... perhaps the observation of common life , show , I think , that this was only a boisterous and somewhat vulgar habit of Mars and his worthies , under excitement , and whether threatening , rejoicing , or crying ; and that it was emphasis ...
... perhaps the observation of common life , show , I think , that this was only a boisterous and somewhat vulgar habit of Mars and his worthies , under excitement , and whether threatening , rejoicing , or crying ; and that it was emphasis ...
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... perhaps they may hold the still smaller fry of nursery jingles . Something like seventy - five years ago I was danced on my nurse's knee , in a Scotch Lowland county , to the following verbal accompaniment : — " This is the way the lady ...
... perhaps they may hold the still smaller fry of nursery jingles . Something like seventy - five years ago I was danced on my nurse's knee , in a Scotch Lowland county , to the following verbal accompaniment : — " This is the way the lady ...
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