Facts and Hints for Every-day Life: A Book for the Household ... |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ammonia animal bake become beef blood body boiling water bone bottle bread brown brush burnisher butter carbonic acid chopped clean cloth cold water colour costiveness cover cream diet digestion dish dissolved drachms effect eggs fire flatulence flavour flesh flour fluid forcemeat fresh gamboge glass gum arabic half heat inches indigestion iron isinglass keep kind Lamp-black lemon light lime liquor lungs madder maizena meat medicine milk minutes mixed mucilage mutton nutmeg ounces oxygen paper parsley pepper piece pint plants pound powder quantity quart removed render roasting rose madder round salt sauce saucepan skin slices soap soft spirits of wine spoon stew stir stomach substance sufficient sugar sulphur sulphuric acid surface sweet sweet oil taken thick thin tion veal vegetable vessel vinegar warm wash weather wine
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 31 - And yet it is so mobile, that we have lived years in it before we can be persuaded that it exists at all, and the great bulk of mankind never realize the truth that they are bathed in an ocean of air.
Seite 30 - ... and symbol. It floats around us like that grand object which the apostle John saw in his vision — " a sea of glass like unto crystal." So massive is it, that when it begins to stir, it tosses about great ships like playthings, and sweeps cities and forests to destruction before it.
Seite 9 - ... great part of the enjoyment of recreation consists in the feeling that we have earned it by previous hard work. One goes out for the afternoon walk with a light heart when one has done a good task since breakfast. It is one thing for a dawdling idler to set off to the Continent or to the Highlands, just because he is sick of everything around him ; and quite another thing when a hard-wrought man, who is of some use in life, sets off, as gay as a lark, with the pleasant feeling that he has brought...
Seite 31 - But for it the rainbow would want its triumphal arch, and the winds would not send their fleecy messengers on errands round the heavens. The cold ether would not shed its snow feathers on the earth, nor would drops of dew gather on the flowers.
Seite 206 - if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : So mayst thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature...
Seite 91 - Any lime-water may be mixed with another, and any solution of bicarbonate of lime with another, without any change being produced : the clearness of the mixed solutions would be undisturbed. Not so, however, if lime-water be mixed with a solution of bicarbonate of lime : very soon a haziness appears ; this deepens into a whiteness, and the mixture soon acquires the appearance of a well-mixed whitewash. When the white matter ceases to be produced, it subsides, and in process of time leaves the water...
Seite 376 - For nearly forty years they have proved their value in thousands of instances in diseases of the HEAD, CHEST, BOWELS, LIVER, and KIDNEYS ; and in all SKIN Complaints are one of the BEST MEDICINES KNOWN. Sold in boxes price 7td., Is.
Seite 200 - The ether will only dissolve a certain amount of the glue : consequently, the solution cannot be made too thick. The glue thus made is about the consistency of molasses, and is doubly as tenacious as that made with hot water. If a few bits of indiarubber, cut into scraps the size of...
Seite 74 - ... your liquor as into a funnel is an action fitter for a juggler than a gentlewoman. In carving at your own table, distribute the best pieces first, and it will appear very decent and comely to use a fork, so touch no piece of meat without it.
Seite 147 - Oh for a good spirit who would take the house-tops off, with a more potent and benignant hand than the lame demon in the tale, and show a Christian people what dark shapes issue from amidst their homes, to swell the retinue of the Destroying Angel as he moves forth among them...