Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London from the Roman Invasion to the Year 1700: Including the Origin of British Society, Customs and Manners, with a General Sketch of the State of Religion, Superstition, Dresses, and Amusements of the Citizens of London, During that Period; to which are Added, Illustrations of the Changes in Our Language, Literary Customs, and Gradual Improvement in Style and Versification, and Various Particulars Concerning Public and Private Libraries, Illustrated by Eighteen Engravings, Band 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811 |
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... hair ready to stand upright on thy head . But O ! what wilt thou do , when not only the supposition of the devil's appearing , but the real society of all the devils in hell will be with thee , howling and roaring , shrieking and ...
... hair ready to stand upright on thy head . But O ! what wilt thou do , when not only the supposition of the devil's appearing , but the real society of all the devils in hell will be with thee , howling and roaring , shrieking and ...
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... hair - breadth escapes which he experienced during that time . " An unhappy marriage caused Mr. Wesley infinite disquietude , which seems to have been the consequence of his itinerant habits , and perhaps of that hauteur demonstrated in ...
... hair - breadth escapes which he experienced during that time . " An unhappy marriage caused Mr. Wesley infinite disquietude , which seems to have been the consequence of his itinerant habits , and perhaps of that hauteur demonstrated in ...
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... hair before all the company with singular modesty ; then taking a peruke and hat that she found in the room , put them on her head , and sat down in an elbow chair very majes- tically , with her arms akembo . After this , she rose out ...
... hair before all the company with singular modesty ; then taking a peruke and hat that she found in the room , put them on her head , and sat down in an elbow chair very majes- tically , with her arms akembo . After this , she rose out ...
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... hair or tail of the goods ; by curing the worm , by stemming of blood , by healing of horsecrooks , by turning of the riddle , or doing of such like innumerable things , by words , without applying any thing meet to the part offended ...
... hair or tail of the goods ; by curing the worm , by stemming of blood , by healing of horsecrooks , by turning of the riddle , or doing of such like innumerable things , by words , without applying any thing meet to the part offended ...
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... hair , to preserve present good fortune ; the preserving the hair on moles ; the fear of cutting elve locks , or complicated hairs on the head , and of those locks extending in length beyond their neighbours . 66 Many conceive , " he ...
... hair , to preserve present good fortune ; the preserving the hair on moles ; the fear of cutting elve locks , or complicated hairs on the head , and of those locks extending in length beyond their neighbours . 66 Many conceive , " he ...
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amongst antient appeared Bishop Bishop of London body breast called cause CHIROMANCY Christ Christian church Church of England clergy cloth coat colour commanded common congregation dæmons declared devil divers divine doctrines doth dress Earl Earl of Kingston Edward VI England evil faith fashion favour French hood Friends George Fox girdle give God's gold Gospel habits hair hath head heart Henry Henry VIII holy honour John Dee Julius Cæsar King laced ladies lives Lollards London Lord manner mantle meeting ment mind minister nature observed offended opinion Parliament persons petticoat pray prayer preacher preaching prelate priests Protestant Quakers Queen reason received reign religion religious Saxons Scriptures sect sent Sermon shew silk silver sleeves society soul spirit superstition supposed suppress thee thing thou tion truth unto wear Wesley West Dereham Wickliffe witches words wore worship
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Seite 256 - Sathan are most certainly practised, and that the instruments thereof merits most severely to be punished : against the damnable opinions of two principally in our age, whereof the one called Scot, an Englishman, is not ashamed in public print to deny that there can be such a thing as witchcraft ; and so maintains the old error of the Sadducees in denying of spirits.
Seite 275 - ... take a row of pins and pull out every one, one after another, saying a...
Seite 328 - Among other affected habits, few of the Puritans, what degree soever they were of, wore their hair long enough to cover their ears, and the ministers and many others cut it close round their heads, with so many little peaks, as was something ridiculous to behold ; whereupon Cleaveland, in his Hue and Cry after them, begins, " With hair in Characters and lugs in Text,
Seite 80 - ... that if any person of the age of sixteen years or upwards, being a subject of this realm, at any time after the tenth day of May next,1 shall be present at any assembly, conventicle or meeting under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England...
Seite 93 - It is expedient that they who enter on the work of preaching the Gospel, be not only qualified for communion of saints,* but also that, except in cases extraordinary, they give proof of their gifts and fitness for the said work unto the pastors of churches of known abilities, to discern and judge of their qualifications^ that they may be sent forth with solemn approbation and prayer ; which we judge needful, that no doubt may remain concerning their being called to the work, and for preventing (as...
Seite 42 - It is a wonder to me, how men can preach so little and so long; so long, a time and so little matter ; as if they thought to please by the inculcation of their vain tautologies. I see no reason, that so high a princess as divinity is should be presented to the people in the sordid rags of the tongue ; nor that he, which speaks from the Father of languages, should deliver his embassage in an ill one.
Seite 241 - Judicials of Astrologie, or any other kinde of pretended Knowledge whatsoever, De futuris contingentibus, have been causes of great disorder in the Commonwealth, especially among the simple and unlearned people, very needfull to be published, which grew by most palpable and grosse errors in Astrologie.
Seite 60 - That all crucifixes, scandalous pictures of any one or more persons of the Trinity, and all images of the Virgin Mary...
Seite 275 - You must lie in another county, and knit the left garter about the right legged stocking (let the other garter and stocking alone) and as you rehearse these following verses, at every comma, knit a knot. This knot I knit, To know the thing, I know not yet, That I may see, The man (woman) that shall my husband (wife) be, How he goes, and what he wears, And what he does, all days, and years.
Seite 256 - The fearful abounding, at this time, in this country, of these detestable slaves of the devil, the witches or enchanters, hath moved me (beloved reader) to dispatch, in post, this following Treatise of mine...