Cassell's household guide, Volume 3

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Populaire passages

Pagina 141 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Pagina 141 - So far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking), has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits, on the contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare.
Pagina 55 - ... shall appoint ; or if the distress shall have been sold, then to order payment to the said tenant of the value thereof, deducting thereout the rent which shall so appear to be due, such value to be determined by the magistrate...
Pagina 357 - ... only half the size. That kind of salt, then, which possesses most eminently the combined properties of hardness, compactness, and perfection of crystals, will be best adapted to the purpose of packing fish and other provisions, because...
Pagina 339 - ... the inside then becomes like a ham, or any other dried meat. Ere long the insects claim it as their own ; the feathers begin to drop off, and you have the hideous spectacle of death in ragged plumage. Wire is of no manner of use, but, on the contrary, a great nuisance ; for where it is introduced, a disagreeable stiffness and derangement of symmetry follow.
Pagina 289 - A straight and flat back, with never a hump ; She's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes. She's fine in her shoulders, and thin in her thighs. She's light in her neck, and small in her tail. She's wide in her breast, and good at the pail. She's fine in her bone, and silky of skin. She's a grazier's without, and a butcher's within.
Pagina 125 - ... but do not on any account suffer them to get black : put them into a stew-pan, pour boiling water on the browning in the frying-pan, boil it up, and pour on the meat. Put to it a bunch of parsley, thyme, and...
Pagina 83 - Even in a caw where the patient had incautiously swallowed a wasp in a draught of beer, and been stung by it in the windpipe, the alarming symptoms that ensued were almost instantly relieved by swallowing repeated doses of water, saturated with salt.
Pagina 239 - L'Estrange's style. Frozen Potatoes. — " IN the time of frosts, the only precaution necessary is, to retain the potatoes in a perfectly dark place for some days after the thaw has commenced. In America, where they are sometimes frozen as hard as stones, they rot if thawed in open day ; but if thawed in darkness they do not rot, and lose very little of their natural odour and properties.
Pagina 66 - ... toast ; sprinkle with pepper and salt, and put a small piece of butter on each ; set before a brisk fire to melt the butter, and serve up quickly.

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