Notes and Queries, Number 230, March 25, 1854

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nd the new creation, the work of Messias, commenced, this feast, I say, begins at six o'clock in the evening of Saturday, the last day of the week, at the close of that Hebrew fast; and the end of Sunday arrives a

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of Sunday beginning at six o'clock on the Saturday evening. Johnson rests his argument upon Deuteronomy xvi. 6., where the sacrifice of the passover is ordered "at even, on the going down of the sun;" upon E

that though our civil day begins from midnight, yet our ecclesiastical day begins at six in the evening.... T

ut does not agree to its commencing on the preceding evensong; for if it

gument: and that Sunday begins ecclesiastically at s

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ous stones, some information may be gleaned from the notes to Sir John Hill's

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o not complain. Their grievance, as alleged, is as to the mode of bearing the lion since the Union in

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r-an annual acquisition of intelligence in every new lord mayor. Arms he supposed it had, and long ones too, for it could reach at anything. Legs, of course, when it made such lon

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inquiry, Devereux Bowly, watchmaker, of Lombard Street

ase a widower, and without family, he left a large portion of his property t

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s a gentleman in this island who bears the name and s

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reversible or palindromic English names, seems