Day 1309 Day 1311 Clark, April 7, 1806 Monday April 7th 1806 This morning Drewyer & the two Fields Set out agreeably to their orders of last evening, the remainder of the party…
The Church of Rome. It is an island because it is isolated or cut off from the world. It is a ringing island because bells are incessantly ringing: at matin and vespers, at mass and at…
or Santa Klaus. A corrupt contraction of Sankt Nikolaus (Sankni kolaus - i.e. St. Nicolas), the patron saint of children. The vigil of his feast is still held in some places, but for the…
(The). In art. The four seasons have often been sculptured or painted by artists: POUSSIN drew his symbolic characters from the Old Testament. Thus, Adam and Eve in Paradise represent…
Arabia Felix. Felix is a mistranslation by Ptolemy of Yemen, which means to the “right” —i.e. of Mecca. (See Stony Arabia.) Beautiful are the maids that glide On summer-eves through Yemen'…
A great log of wood laid in ancient times across the hearth-fire on Christmas Eve. This was done with certain ceremonies and much merry-making. (Norwegian, juul, Christmas.) Ever at…
in Latin, means an apple; and “malus, mala, malum” means evil. Southey, in his Commonplace Book, quotes a witty etymon given by Nicolson and Burn, making the noun derived from the…
(Old Dublin). This official and his sheriffs were elected on May-day and St. Peter's Eve “to be captaine and gardian of the batchelers and the unwedded youth of the civitie.” For the year…
The plants called Orpine or Live-long, one of the Sedum tribe. Stonecrop is another variety of the same species of plants. Orpine is the French word for stonecrop. Live-long, so called…
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