The Useful Arts and Manufactures of Great Britain: (First Selection.) ...1850 - Industrial arts - 493 pages |
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... less inclined to cultivate silk , now that the cotton plant , introduced about this time , yielded a more pro- fitable and less precarious harvest . The Society for the Encouragement of Arts con- tinued , during a number of years , to ...
... less inclined to cultivate silk , now that the cotton plant , introduced about this time , yielded a more pro- fitable and less precarious harvest . The Society for the Encouragement of Arts con- tinued , during a number of years , to ...
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... less instructed of other nations . The cultivation of arts and manufactures was thus stimulated , and the general civilization of Europe accelerated . " Several of the articles manufactured by the re- fugees have been entirely ...
... less instructed of other nations . The cultivation of arts and manufactures was thus stimulated , and the general civilization of Europe accelerated . " Several of the articles manufactured by the re- fugees have been entirely ...
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... less than half its original length . When its labour is com- pleted it rests awhile , and then once more throws off its skin , but it is no longer a caterpillar ; its form is changed into a chry- salis , or aurelia , with a smooth brown ...
... less than half its original length . When its labour is com- pleted it rests awhile , and then once more throws off its skin , but it is no longer a caterpillar ; its form is changed into a chry- salis , or aurelia , with a smooth brown ...
Page 43
... less compact than the good cocoons . 4. Choquettes , cocoons in which the worm had died before it had finished spinning ; the silk is fine , but apt to furze in winding . 5. Dupion , or double cocoons , containing two or more ...
... less compact than the good cocoons . 4. Choquettes , cocoons in which the worm had died before it had finished spinning ; the silk is fine , but apt to furze in winding . 5. Dupion , or double cocoons , containing two or more ...
Page 9
... less than forty - nine apprentices ; others took an almost unlimited number of parish apprentices , with whom a premium of £ 5 was given . The London Company endeavoured to check this system by legal proceed- ings , in which , after a ...
... less than forty - nine apprentices ; others took an almost unlimited number of parish apprentices , with whom a premium of £ 5 was given . The London Company endeavoured to check this system by legal proceed- ings , in which , after a ...
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Page 5 - O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Page 5 - Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thce, " And shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts ; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one brcaketh a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again : and they shall bury them in tophet, till there be no place to bury.
Page 62 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Page 3 - ... a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and...
Page 71 - Of sounding an alarm assaults these doors Till the street rings; no stationary steeds Cough their own knell, while, heedless of the sound, The silent circle fan themselves, and quake: But here the needle plies its busy task, The pattern grows; the well-depicted...
Page 43 - I myself thought good to imitate the Italian fashion by this forked cutting of meate, not only while I was in Italy, but also in Germany, and oftentimes in England since I came home...
Page 42 - I observed a custome in all those Italian cities and townes through the which I passed, that is not used in any other country that I saw in my travels ; neither do I think that any other nation of Christendome doth use it, but only Italy.
Page 4 - Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter : so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Page 17 - So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that were with Saul and Jonathan : but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found.
Page 27 - From the first appearance of this ground may be dated the origin of the modern pillow lace trade ; but it was not until the beginning of the present century that the...