Antiquitates Curiosae: The Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings, Proverbs, & Singular CustomsT. & J. Allman, 1819 - 156 עמודים |
מתוך הספר
תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 14
עמוד 2
... - tion , had an incredible number of clergy to sup- port , and among other devices this was invented as one , and took its name of mass from the Latin word mitto , to send . This word mitto was a kind of remembrancer , or 2.
... - tion , had an incredible number of clergy to sup- port , and among other devices this was invented as one , and took its name of mass from the Latin word mitto , to send . This word mitto was a kind of remembrancer , or 2.
עמוד 3
... kind of remembrancer , or rather dictator , which said , " send gifts , offer- ings , and ablations to the priests , that they may intercede with Christ to save your soul by saying so many masses . " Hence it was called Christ's - mass ...
... kind of remembrancer , or rather dictator , which said , " send gifts , offer- ings , and ablations to the priests , that they may intercede with Christ to save your soul by saying so many masses . " Hence it was called Christ's - mass ...
עמוד 7
... kind of gallantry that might make him acceptable , and used all his endeavours to ingratiate himself with her , from whom he always met with the most obliging respect , but a continual discouragement to all his hopes , which heightened ...
... kind of gallantry that might make him acceptable , and used all his endeavours to ingratiate himself with her , from whom he always met with the most obliging respect , but a continual discouragement to all his hopes , which heightened ...
עמוד 23
... kind of monstrous sow , with six legs , which he shewed to his customers as a valuable rarity . This David had a wife , who used often to make herself quite drunk , and then to lie down to sleep for an hour or two , that she might ...
... kind of monstrous sow , with six legs , which he shewed to his customers as a valuable rarity . This David had a wife , who used often to make herself quite drunk , and then to lie down to sleep for an hour or two , that she might ...
עמוד 34
... kind to their patrons , adding to them a small piece of silver . Under Augustus , the senate , the knights , and the people , presented such gifts to him , and in his absence deposited them in the capitol . Of the succeeding princes ...
... kind to their patrons , adding to them a small piece of silver . Under Augustus , the senate , the knights , and the people , presented such gifts to him , and in his absence deposited them in the capitol . Of the succeeding princes ...
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
Curious Antiquities: Or the Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings ... <span dir=ltr>Joseph Taylor</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2008 |
Curious Antiquities: Or, the Etymology of Many Remarkable Old Sayings ... <span dir=ltr>Joseph Taylor</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2015 |
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
afterwards antiquity became Bideford bishop Brahmin bread Bugle built Bull called Candlemas CHIG Christian church cocks corruption court COURT-LEET curfew bell derived devil Duke Earl Edward the Third England English etymology fire formerly French GAN UNIV gave Gilt Spur granted Greek Henry III Henry the Eighth HIGAN UNIVER HOBSON'S CHOICE HOCUS POCUS honour horse hundred HUNGARY WATER IGAN Inigo Jones Jubilee king land Lane London lord master mayor MIC SITY MIC UNIV monks night NINE TAILORS NIVERS observed occasion ORIGIN parish person pilgrim plough Pope prayers present priests proverb Queen reign Romans Rome RSITY Sabbath saint Saxon Saxon word saying shew SHOOTER'S HILL Shrove Shrove Tuesday signifies Sissa sneeze solemn Street Sunday thence tion took its name town trithings Twelfth-day Tyburn UNIV MIC UNIV UNIV UNIVE MICHI Ward whence Whigs Whitsun wine
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 113 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meat, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
עמוד 113 - This form of feeding I understand is generally used in all places of Italy, their forks being for the most part made of iron or steel, and some of silver, but those are used only by gentlemen. The reason of this their curiosity is because the Italian cannot by any means endure to ha.ve his dish touched with fingers, seeing all men's fingers are not alike clean.
עמוד 112 - For while with their knife which they hold in one hand they cut the meate out of the dish, they fasten their forke which they hold in their other hand upon the same dish...
עמוד 72 - It was consecrated to Hertha, the Goddess of Peace and Fertility ; and no quarrels might be maintained, no blood shed, during this truce of the Goddess. Each village, in the absence of the Baron at the assembly of the nation, enjoyed a kind of Saturnalia. The vassals met upon the common green around the May-pole, where they elected a village lord, or king, as he was called, who chose his queen.
עמוד 104 - Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
עמוד 43 - Bless to both nations this auspicious hour ! So may the Trojan and the Tyrian line In lasting. concord from this day combine. Thou, Bacchus, god of joys and friendly cheer, And gracious Juno, both, be present here ! And you, my lords of Tyre, your vows address To heaven with mine, to ratify the peace.
עמוד 92 - ... great number of copies being found, they were seized : the red ink, with which they were embellished, was said to be his blood : it was seriously adjudged that he was in league with the devil; and if he had not...
עמוד 91 - As he sold his printed copies for sixty crowns, •while the scribes demanded five hundred, this created universal astonishment : but when he produced copies as fast as they were •wanted, and lowered the price to thirty crowns, all Paris was agitated. The uniformity of the copies increased the wonder. Informations were given...
עמוד 59 - On the annual aquatic procession of the Lord Mayor of London to Westminster, the barge of the Company of Stationers, which is usually the first in the show, proceeds to Lambeth Palace, where from time immemorial they (the Stationers) receive a present of sixteen bottles of the archbishop's prime wine.
עמוד 90 - Some will have St. Anthony's picture on the walls of their houses, hoping by that to be preserved from the plague ; and the Italians, who do not know the true signification of the fire painted at the side of their saint, concluding that he preserves houses from being burnt, invoke him on such occasions.