The Every Day Book, Or, A Guide to the Year: Describing the Popular Amusements Sports, Ceremonies, Manners Customs & Events Incident to the Three Hundred & Sixty-five Days, in Past & Present Times, Volume 2W. Tegg, 1868 |
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Page 244
... Saint Jean , " Ah yes , ' tis a piece of Saint John . " The old lady seemed to think that the saint's intercession in her behalf , mutilated as he was , might still be of some avail . In Xylander's Plutarch there is a passage in Greek ...
... Saint Jean , " Ah yes , ' tis a piece of Saint John . " The old lady seemed to think that the saint's intercession in her behalf , mutilated as he was , might still be of some avail . In Xylander's Plutarch there is a passage in Greek ...
Page 488
... saints used a staff instead of a wand , which was the instrument employed by fairies - he cured three blind men , two who were dumb , and one who was a cripple with the palsy . A count de Guythure , who was go- vernor of Batz at the saint's ...
... saints used a staff instead of a wand , which was the instrument employed by fairies - he cured three blind men , two who were dumb , and one who was a cripple with the palsy . A count de Guythure , who was go- vernor of Batz at the saint's ...
Page 499
... saint was a martyr under the emperor Maximian . From his silence as to the saint's life , it is to be inferred that biogra- phers of saints were rare , while , from his elaborate account of the saint's death , it is to be inferred that ...
... saint was a martyr under the emperor Maximian . From his silence as to the saint's life , it is to be inferred that biogra- phers of saints were rare , while , from his elaborate account of the saint's death , it is to be inferred that ...
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