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Fugitive Pieces on Various Subjects: A vindication of natural society. The ... - Page 301
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On the Sports and Pursuits of the English, as Bearing Upon Their National ...

Thomas Egerton Earl of Wilton - Sports - 1868 - 356 pages
...great noises that fill the ear, such as the firing of a cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells, so that it is common for a number of them that have got a glass in their heads to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of...
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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Musical Instruments in the South Kensington ...

South Kensington Museum, Carl Engel - Musical instruments - 1874 - 432 pages
...that till the ear, fuch as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells ; fo that in London it is common for a number of them that have got a glafs in their heads to go -up into fome belfry, and ring the bells for hours together for the fake of exercife." This may be exaggeration,...
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Memoirs of Bartholomew fair. Repr

Henry Morley - 1874 - 440 pages
...great noises that fill the ear, such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells ; so that it is common for a number of them, that have got a glass in their heads, to go up into some belfry, and ring the bells for hours together, for the sake...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 52

1876 - 982 pages
...of great noises that fill the ear, such as firing cannon, beating of drums, and ringing of bells; so that it is common for a number of them that have got a glass in their heads to get up into the belfry and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of...
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The Church Bells of Rutland: Their Inscriptions, Traditions, and Peculiar ...

Thomas North - Bells - 1880 - 212 pages
...that fill the air, such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells ; so that in London it is common for a number of them that have got a glass in their heads to go up into some belfry, and ring the bells for hours together for the sake...
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Richard F. Burton ...: His Early, Private and Public Life; with an ..., Volume 1

Francis Hitchman - Authors, English - 1887 - 478 pages
...fond of great noises that fill the ear, such as firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells, so that it is common for a number of them that have got a glass in their heads, to go up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together, for the sake...
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The Somerset Religious Houses

William Arthur Jobson Archbold - Monasteries - 1892 - 432 pages
...great noises " that fill the ear, such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the "ringing of bells, so that it is common for a number of them " that have got a glass in their heads to go up into some belfry, " and ring the bells for hours together for the sake...
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The Life of Captain Sir Richd F. Burton, Volume 1

Lady Isabel Burton - Adventure and adventurers - 1893 - 670 pages
...of great noises that fill the air, such as the firing of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells, so that it is common for a number of them that have got a ' glass ' in their heads, to go up into some belfry, and ring the bells for hours together for the...
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London: A Short History, with Maps and Illustrations

Max John Christian Meiklejohn - London (England) - 1898 - 292 pages
...that fill the ear, such as the firiug of cannon, drums, and the ringing of bells ; so that in London it is common for a number of them, that have got a glass in their heads, to go into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together for the sake of...
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The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England from the Earliest Period ...

Joseph Strutt - England - 1801 - 474 pages
...noises that fill the ear, such as the firing of cannon, beating of drums, and the ringing of bells ; so that it is common for a number of them that have got a glass in their heads to get up into some belfry and ring the bells for hours together for the sake...
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