... we may and shall have a merry Christmas and a happy new year. We have heard many wish each other the fruition of this blessing, but we tell themt they must wouie as well as wish. The only avenue to a merry Christmas and a happy new year is the Charter-it ...

... CHRISTMAS EVE.-CHIRISTNIAS DAY. Christmas comes but once a-year, So let it come cheerily; Every face in smiles appear Not an hour pass wearily. THE high-festival of Christmas is returned to us again; and this is Christmas Eve,-the day on which our fore- ...

... CHRISTMAS QUAUTKR SESSIONS, isic. wKsr-aioiNo or ToaK>«ita. NOTICE it hereby given. TKit the CHRIST MAS GENERAL QITARTER SESSIONS of the PFACE the faid Riding will opened Tocfday the Ninth Day o» Jiuuary, 1816. ai»d Adjournment from thence wil; held Wakefield ...

... CHRISTMAS. A NOM Or ?NR nob le wi hold hat Let Ina. he J.. 14 Arne. And pot 41y. ?bow* a. nu, math ,Nn.. pmu forehead. inn.; brown worn. in Slue. And let iv. Maw ad anodes And am .1114: The. , they Wish holed airs. all pit. are turnlnd .tknut toe lel ...

... year.'' 'The CaroIs, furmerly-sung nt'tbis-ssasoridf the ,year,'- ?? 4nhasbns for enl Veitxg te'.mer-. t inacrta of thte Christmas -celrbrity; ?? rehigious sonigs as 8re current thisdayi witb te- comsanja pd'oplst, umler the same-tis1'e~ra'sit whiche were ...

... CHRISTMAS. IN times past this seasoln of the year wasi charac- inu terised by joy and gladness throughout the length thi and breadth of the land. The winter's gloom was enlivened by good substantial fare and heart-elating , merriment. The peasant as well ...

... feasts of the grove were celebrated in the months of May cember; and in the North of England, Christm *. called Christmas Yule, and Christmas Gambols. games, and Yule, is the proper Scotch word for' festival. These sports are resorted to by great bers of ...

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... CHRISTMAS. Christmas is approaching—the season of joy, of tivity, of merriment, and of social glee: it ought be the season too of devotion ; but as religious cx diums are not exactly in place newspaper, * shall rest content with reminding our readers ...

... night was cone On, were wont to light candles of an uncommon size, which called Christmas* candles, and lay a log of wood upon the fire, which they termed ile-elog, or Christmas-block. These were to illuminate the house, torn into d.iy ; which custom, in ...

... CHRISTMAS. Let us laugh, and sing, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year ! Old Song. Christmas has come again, like old familiar fnend paying us a periodical vi-.it. The holly bough once more bedecks our window, and the mistletoe is ...

... CHRISTMAS. Yorkshire Gazette. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 183 7. Old Christmas with his jovial countenance and rubicund complexion, albeit surmounted with a frosty salutes us again and trust be comes with not less benignant intentions than yore. True it is, ...