Cassell's Household Guide to Every Department of Practical Life: Being a Complete Encyclopaedia of Domestic and Social Economy, Volumes 3-4

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Cassell, Petter, Galpin, 1899
 

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Pagina 214 - Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on...
Pagina 311 - Asiatic animal, is found in North America. The fur of the ermine is of a pure whiteness throughout, with the exception of the tip of the tail, which is black ; and the spotted appearance of ermine skins, by which they are peculiarly known, is produced by fastening these black tips at intervals on the skins.
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 53 - ... from the early part of February to the second week in July ; and then (if the bird be in a state of freedom) its song entirely ceases. You may hear the thrush, the lark, the robin, and the wren, sing from time to time in the dreary months of winter ; but you will never, by any chance, have one single note of melody from the chaffinch. Its powers of song...
Pagina 364 - England, who shall have in his own name or in trust for him, within the same county, ten pounds by the year above reprizes in lands or tenements, whether of freehold, copyhold, or customary tenure, or of ancient demesne, or in rents issuing out of any such lands or tenements, or in such lands, tenements, and rents taken together, in fee simple...
Pagina 246 - ... 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 341 - ... 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 342 - ... little stick and cotton your own genius must produce those swellings and cavities, that just proportion, that elegance and harmony of the whole, so much admired in animated nature, so little attended to in preserved specimens. After you have introduced the cotton, sew up the orifice you originally made in the belly, beginning at the vent. And from time to time till you arrive at the last stitch, keep adding a little cotton in order that there may be no deficiency there. Lastly dip your stick...
Pagina 125 - ... but do not on any account suffer them to get black : put them into a stewpan, pour boiling water on the browning in the fryingpan, boil it up, and pour on the meat. Put to it a bunch of parsley, thyme, and...
Pagina 98 - When a landlord is about to make a distress he is not bound to calculate very nicely the value of the property seized, but he must take care that some proportion is kept between that and the sum for which he is entitled to take it, and in doinj so is only bound to exercise a reasonable and honest discretion.

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