 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...superstition of our ancestors, that each of them had its peculiar name and virtues ; and many of them retained great affection for the churches to which they belonged, and where they were consecrated. One of them, having been removed from its original and favourite situation, used frequently in the... | |
 | English essays - 1830 - 710 pages
...vol. xcv. p. 525. Bells, it is well known, were a great object of superstition with our ancestors. Each of them was represented to have its peculiar name and virtues. Your Magazine for 1818, p. 307, and Hone's Every Day Book, vol. ii. p. 136, have much general and entertaining... | |
 | Children's periodicals - 1844 - 372 pages
...affection, and veneration, among our ancestors. When one of them was removed from its original and favorite situation, it was sometimes supposed to take a nightly trip to its old place of residence, unless exorcised in the evening, and secured with an iron chain or rope. Thus Mr. Warner : — Men's deaths... | |
 | William Hone - 1837 - 936 pages
...were said ' pulsare classicum.' " Bells were a great object of supersti . tion among our ancestors. Each of them was represented to have its peculiar...have retained great affection for the churches to «Inch they belonged, and where they were consecrated. When a bell was removed from its original and... | |
 | John Brand - Christian antiquities - 1841 - 356 pages
...ringers were said pulsare Classicum. Bells were a great ohject of superstition among our ancestors. Each of them was represented to have its peculiar...retained great affection for the churches to which they helonged, and where they were consecrated. When a hell was removed from its original and favourite... | |
 | Brand - Christian antiquities - 1849 - 544 pages
...ringers were said pulsare classicum. Bells were a great object of superstition among our ancestors. Each of them was represented to have its peculiar...consecrated. When a bell was removed from its original and favorite situation, it was sometimes supposed to take a nightly trip to its old place of residence,... | |
 | John E. Farbrother - Shepton Mallet (England) - 1859 - 248 pages
...The whole cost amounted to £176. " Bells were a great object of superstition among our ancestors. Each of them was represented to have its peculiar name and virtues," and quaint mottoes were often inscribed upon them. There is nothing peculiarly striking in the inscriptions... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1869 - 686 pages
...ancestors connected many superstitions with bells. Each was credited with its own peculiar virtue. When a bell was removed from its original and favourite...take a nightly trip to its old place of residence. The finest sets of bells have been entirely destroyed by want of sufficient exercise, without which... | |
 | William Hone - 1868 - 874 pages
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Bells were a great object of superstition among our ancestors. Each of them was represented to have its peculiar name and virtues, and many are said to have retained great affection for the churches to which they belonged, and where they were consecrated.... 
