The art of perfumery and the methods of obtaining the odours of plants

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1879 - 506 pagina's

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Pagina 32 - that there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice in it;
Pagina 304 - xlv. 8 :—' All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.' From what is said in Matt. ii. 11, it would appear that perfumes were considered among the most valuable
Pagina 8 - It was while all the multitude was praying without, at the hour of incense, that there appeared to Zachary an angel of the Lord, standing on the right side of the altar of incense (Luke i. 10).
Pagina 20 - an Act was introduced into the English Parliament, in 1770 :— That all women, of whatever age, rank, profession, or degree, whether virgins, maids, or widows, that shall, from and after such Act, impose upon, seduce, and betray into matrimony, any of his Majesty's subjects, by the scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool
Pagina 7 - 34. Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight ... 35. And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary,
Pagina 20 - that shall, from and after such Act, impose upon, seduce, and betray into matrimony, any of his Majesty's subjects, by the scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, Spanish wool (wool impregnated with carmine, and used to this day as a rouge), iron stays, hoops, high-heeled shoes, bolstered hips, shall incur the
Pagina 51 - The hyacinth, purple, and white, and blue, Which flung from its bells a sweet peal anew Of music so delicate, soft, and intense, It was felt like an odour within the sense
Pagina 409 - And when Jehu was come to Jezreel, Jezebel heard of it; and she painted her face, and tired her head, and looked out at a window
Pagina 306 - And twixt his finger and his thumb he held A pouncet-box, which ever and anon he gave His nose and took't away again.
Pagina 1 - By Nature's swift and secret working hand The garden glows, and fills the liberal air With lavish odours. There let me draw Ethereal soul, there drink reviving gales, Profusely breathing from the spicy groves And vales of fragrance.—THOMSON.

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