 | World - 1868 - 528 Seiten
...Antiquarian Curiosities. CURIOUS ANCIENT SUPERSTITION. — In a volume containing miscellaneous collections by Dr. Richard Pocock, in the British Museum, is the...Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain in the reign of King Charles I., to the Sheriff of Staffordshire, which illustrates a curious popular... | |
 | World - 1874 - 452 Seiten
...Antiquarian Curiosities. CURIOUS ANCIENT SUPERSTITION. — In a volume containing miscellaneous collections by Dr. Richard Pocock, in the British Museum, is the...Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlain in the reign of King Charles I., to the Sheriff of Staffordshire, which illustrates a curious popular... | |
 | John Smith - 1882 - 476 Seiten
...invisible at pleasure. A more practical notion of the supposed power of ferns is, that the burning of it brings down rain, of which the following is a curious...volume 'containing a miscellaneous collection by Dr. Eichard Pocock, in the British Museum, is the copy of a letter written by Philip Herbert, third Earl... | |
 | W.A. Poucher - 1992 - 404 Seiten
...invisible at pleasure. A more practical notion of the supposed power of ferns is, that the burning of it brings down rain, of which the following is a curious...a volume containing a miscellaneous collection by Or Richard Pocock, in the British Museum, is the copy of a letter written by Philip Herbert, third... | |
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... residentiary, the former being, as might be expected, by far the more interesting, both naturally and gastronomically ; while the others, like many other stay-at-homes, are flat, stale, and unprofitable. Antiquarian Curiosities. CURIOUS ANCIENT SUPERSTITION.... 