| James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 442 pages
...retain that fashion in the make of their gowns. " Captain Sjlas Taylor says, that, in days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the horizon when the sun arose for the East, which makes that variation, so that few stand... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - Clothing and dress - 1811 - 454 pages
...retain that fashion in the make of their gowns. " Captain Silas Taylor says, that, in days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the horizon when the sun arose for the East, which makes that variation, so that few stand... | |
| James Peller Malcolm - Costume - 1811 - 440 pages
...retain that fashion in the make of their gowns. " Captain Silas Taylor says, that, in days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the horizon when the sun arose for the East, which makes that variation, so that few stand... | |
| 622 pages
...the middle. The benchers in the Inns of Court, yet retain that fashion in the make of their gowns. When a church was to be built, they watched and prayed...true, except those built between the two equinoxes. »This has been frequently proved, and the line found to point to that part of the horizon where the... | |
| Edward John Rudge - Evesham (England) - 1820 - 172 pages
...this passage is doubtful : TindalJ supposes that on the site of the present * " In the days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed...that point of the horizon where the sun arose for tht fast., which makes that variation, so that few stand true, except those built between the two equinoxes.... | |
| 1823 - 406 pages
...which was in his library, to be publicly burned. Cap taiu Silas Taylor siys, that in the days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the horizon where the sun arose for the east, which makes that variation, so that few stand... | |
| 1824 - 402 pages
...retain that fashion in the make of their gowns. Captain Silas Taylor says, that in the days of yore, when •A church was to be built, they watched and...prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the horizon whence the sun arose from the cast, which makes that variation, so that few stand... | |
| English literature - 1824 - 436 pages
...that fashion in the make of their gowns. Captain uilas Taylor says, that in the days of yore, when л church was to be built, they watched and prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the korizon whence the sun arose from the east, which makes that variation, so that few stand... | |
| Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...yeomen of the guards — ie, gathered at the middle. ' Captain Silas Taylor says, that in days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched" and prayed...horizon where the sun arose, for the east, which makes the variation that so few stand true, except those built between the two equinoxes. I have experimented... | |
| Margaret De Courcy, Beatrice De Courcy - Fashion - 1832 - 542 pages
...retain that fashion in the make of thcir gowns. Captain Silas Taylor sayn, that in the days of yore, when a church was to be built, they watched and prayed on the vigil of the dedication, and took that part of the horizon when the sun arose from the east, which makes that variation, so that few stand... | |
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