Essay on the Archaeology of Our Popular Phrases; Terms and Nursery Rhymes Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 edition. Excerpt: ...up, upwards, indefinitely; op, upright; t te, at an end. A Heathen expression of his nature-inspired belief. NURSERY RHYMES CONTINUED FROM No. 86. P. 310. OF V. 1. OF THIS SUPPLEMENT TO THE SECOND EDITION OF THE ESSAY ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF POPULAR PHRASES AND NURSERY RHYMES, PRINTED BY COUPLAND (SOUTHAMPTON), AND PUBLISHED BY LONGMAN AND CO., LONDON. All these Men of the Hood (Friars) have certainly a twist in the brain (something amiss in their understanding), they tell us Saxons, our Faith in being destined for Heaven (our Natural Religion) will be the entering of us into a futurity of misery (Hell); if we are married and become suddenly cripples (fall into a delicate state of health; in allusion to his having debauched and infected the wife and she the husband) they tell us it is an inheritance bestowed upon us by our Maker (not by him, the Friar, as the Saxon foolishly supposes); but when they tell me, I (the Saxon) am, beyond all dispute undoubtedly, a being the Deity has introduced into existence, and that the same Deity excludes me from Heaven as a matter of course for being a Heretick (for not being what I ought to be) it excites in me the exclaiming, when I become a bodiless soul (pure, sheer spirit) it is for the disgusting Being you are to tell ui that that which the Deity has endowed me with (the soul he gave me and brought into existence himself) is that which is as that which he intended for future scorching (that He made me what I am merely for the take of being smoked and burnt in your Hell). All the terms here used have been explained and exemplified. Another Heathen posing address to the Italian Missionary. YanKbt Doodle, was adopted by the English as an opprobrious appellation for the Rebel-American, and the two words...