The Reliquary & Illustrated Archæologist, المجلد 13

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Bemrose and Sons, Limited, 1907

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الصفحة 52 - They part his skin from bones ;' and (which is the greater shame) I have seen both senatores majorum gentium et matrones de eodem gradu, following this bulling business. " I can say no more of it, but only to set forth the antiquity thereof (as the tradition goes) : William Earl...
الصفحة 219 - ... was still burning; he had a viol in his hand, and was playing and singing alone beside the fire. The weather was very cold. Happening to look into the fire, he spied in the middle of those most burning flames a little creature like a lizard, which was sporting in the core of the intensest coals.
الصفحة 51 - September, 1730, a mad bull to be dressed up with fireworks and turned loose in the game place. Likewise a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, and turned loose with the man in the ground. Also a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail.
الصفحة 52 - ... or other staff which they pursue the bull with. Which proclamation made, and the gates all shut up, the bull is turned out of the alderman's house ; and then hivie-skivy, tag and rag, men, women, and children, of all sorts and sizes, with all the dogs in the town...
الصفحة 54 - Hook, so fastened to a stake that it will turn round ; with this the Bull circulates to watch his Enemy ; which is a Mastiff Dog (commonly used to the Sport) with a short nose, that his teeth may take the better hold. This Dog, if right, will creep upon his belly that he may, if possible, get the Bull by the Nose; which the Bull as carefully strives to defend, by laying it close to the ground, where his Horns are also ready to do what in them lies to toss the dog ; and this is the true sport. But...
الصفحة 263 - for more than eight centuries under different forms — in poverty and in wealth, in meanness and magnificence, in misfortune and in success, it finally succumbed to the royal will. The day came, and that a drear winter day, when its last mass was sung, its last censer waved, its last congregation bent in rapt and lowly adoration before the altar...
الصفحة 263 - ... in rapt and lowly adoration before the altar there, and doubtless, as the last tones of that day's evensong died away in the vaulted roof, there were not wanting those who lingered in the solemn stillness .of the old massive pile, and who, as the lights disappeared one by one, felt that...
الصفحة 80 - That they make no secret contracts, without consent or counsel of their parents or elders, under whose authority they be, contrary to God's laws and man's ordinances. Thirdly, That they contract not anew with any other upon divorce and separation made by the Judge for a time, the laws yet standing to the contrary.
الصفحة 102 - The honour they do unto it. Tobacco engages Both sexes, all ages, The poor as well as the wealthy, From the court to the cottage, From childhood to dotage, Both those that are sick and the healthy. It plainly appears That in a few years Tobacco more custom hath gained, Then sack, or then ale, Though they double the tale, Of the times, wherein they have reigned.
الصفحة 219 - ... creature like a lizard, which was sporting in the core of the intensest coals. Becoming instantly aware of what the thing was, he had my sister and me called, and pointing it out to us children, gave me a great box on the ears, which caused me to howl and weep with all my might. Then he pacified me...

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