... abundance the harvest ? [FROM THE JOHN BUIX. Christmas is come again; and this is shouted otit to us with great glee, with the additional almost needless announcement, iu an equally mirthful tone, that Christmas coines but once a year. Now gay and joyous ...

... CHRISTMAS. In furry pall yclad, His with holly never sere, Old Christmas conies to close the wained year ; ANDrigfatheartilvdo we bid the fellow welcome, thongi, to say the truth, lie is far from looking j°>' as J'? 1 '; Age infirmities indeed, he ...

... CHRISTMAS. All hail Merry Christmas—allhail! Thou source ofluit, Iro'ic, and festivity; light, life, and lient, during torpor and gloominess winter ; thou charmed goddess, who thaws into a generous and kindly flow. Notwithstanding that the broad pinions ...

... CHRISTMAS. The preparations for celebrating this holy festival for the year of Grace 183(j, indicate no falling off the supplies, nor the aud means. Our markets 1.-ive been literally overgorged, anil the j beauties of nature —beauties far excellence have ...

... philosophy of Christmas. Amidst this extended festivity, rich with all its social joys, must beware that the claims of the poor, the fatherless, and the stranger, are not forgotten or neglected. Of little avail will the huge fire —which at Christmas the cynosure ...

... CHRISTMAS. Gentle reader—a merry Christmas to thee and, thine, and all otner comphments and enjoyments of this festive season attend thy ingoings and outcomings, thy down-sittings and We will reverse the curse of that old scold, Mother Onurch-Mayest thou ...

... This was the part that Christmas used act, when Christmas ruled the roastwhen Kings held Court-days in honour of the King ol' Kings, and threw off state and grandeur, do homage to i the humility of the Highest. Benevolent Christmas! he used to relieve all ...

... CHRISTMAS. Christmas, as perhaps most people are aware, is so called from the celebration of mass the ancient English Church in OthrtfeiDoration the birth of the Saviour ; and has in ' 'all Christian countries at all times been especially devoted to ...

... CHRISTMAS. A merry Christmas be it, for all the hard winter; merry for all the suffering, past and future. The season, this year, has its peculiar traits; the merry moral is perennial. Nay, usage may pass away, but the origin of all usage remains. The ...

... his observations popular antiquities to Vuledoiighs, mince-pies, Christmas-pies, and plumporridge,’ omitting plum-pudding, which new Christmas dish, or rather new name for an old Christmas dish, appears to have been introduced with the reign of the merry ...

... CHRISTMAS! EXETER, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1842. —♦ The compliments of the season, gentle reader, to thee and thine May many a merry Christmas betide thee, and all thy days of joy and gladness fall in due season as regular as the visits of the tax gatherer to ...

... return of this season of the year. CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS. Christmas has been called the Feast of Lights, because the Messiah, the true Light, then came into the world; thence arose the practice of burning the Christmas Yule Clog, or Block, most likely before ...