 | Thomas Ewbank - 1856 - 476 pagina’s
...called St. Antony's Hog, for which they [the people] have great veneration. Many will have St. Antony's picture on the walls of their houses, hoping by that...be preserved from the Plague, And the Italians, who did not know the true signification of the fire painted at his side, thought that he preserved houses... | |
 | James Frederick S. Gordon - 1868 - 206 pagina’s
...Anthony's. Hog, and for which they have great veneration. Many others will have S. Anthony's Picture upon the walls of their houses, hoping by that to be preserved from the Plague. And the Italians, who did not know the true signification of the Fire painted at his side, thought that he preserved houses... | |
 | James Frederick S. Gordon - 1868 - 206 pagina’s
...Anthony's. Hog, and for which they have great veneration. Many others will have S. Anthony's Picture upon the walls of their houses, hoping by that to be preserved from the Plague. And the Italians, who did not know the true signification of the Fire painted at his side, thought that he preserved houses... | |
 | 1890 - 580 pagina’s
...common charge, a hog denominated St. Anthony s hog, for which they have great veneration. Some "will have St. Anthony's picture on the walls of their houses,...not know the true signification of the fire painted by the side of the saint, concluding that he preserves houses from be ing burnt, invoke him on such... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 860 pagina’s
...called St. Antony's Hog, for which they [the people] have great veneration. Many will have St. Antony's picture on the walls of their houses, hoping by that...be preserved from the Plague. And the Italians, who did not know the true signification of the fire painted at his side, thought that he preserved houses... | |
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hog (whence our vulgarism of Tantony pig} for which th,ey have great veneration. Some have St. Anthony's picture on the walls of their houses, hoping by that to be preserved from the plague: and. the Italians, who do not know the true signification of... 
