The every day book: or a guide to the year: describing the popular amusements, sports, ceremonies, manners, customs, and events incident to the three hundred and sixty-five days in past and present timesWilliam Tegg, 1866 - Almanacs, English |
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Page 53
... death . On the 26th , the wind veered to the south - west , and a thaw was speedily dis- cernible . The great fall ... deaths from cold and distress were greater than at any other period , unless at the time of the plague . There were ...
... death . On the 26th , the wind veered to the south - west , and a thaw was speedily dis- cernible . The great fall ... deaths from cold and distress were greater than at any other period , unless at the time of the plague . There were ...
Page 54
... death on the High . gate - road . She proved to have been a charwoman , returning from Highgate , where she had been at work , to Pancras . A poor woman named Wood , while crossing Blackheath from Leigh to the village of Charlton ...
... death on the High . gate - road . She proved to have been a charwoman , returning from Highgate , where she had been at work , to Pancras . A poor woman named Wood , while crossing Blackheath from Leigh to the village of Charlton ...
Page 55
... death , within little more than a hundred yards of the house of his nephew , with whom he resided . Mr. Chapman , organist , and master of the central school at Andover , Hants , was frozen to death near Wallop , in that county . A ...
... death , within little more than a hundred yards of the house of his nephew , with whom he resided . Mr. Chapman , organist , and master of the central school at Andover , Hants , was frozen to death near Wallop , in that county . A ...
Page 75
... death of his son Pallas , as they are trans lated by the same hand : - O Pallas ! thou hast failed thy plighted word To fight with caution , not to tempt the sword : I warned thee , but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ...
... death of his son Pallas , as they are trans lated by the same hand : - O Pallas ! thou hast failed thy plighted word To fight with caution , not to tempt the sword : I warned thee , but in vain ; for well I knew What perils youthful ...
Page 76
... death . We know nothing of it but from history , therefore none of us were concerned in the fact ; with what reason then can it be averred that we ought to be responsible for it , when it neither was nor is in our power to prevent it ...
... death . We know nothing of it but from history , therefore none of us were concerned in the fact ; with what reason then can it be averred that we ought to be responsible for it , when it neither was nor is in our power to prevent it ...
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