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... whole fig- ures , some the size of life , and others of various dimensions . The paintings are on back grounds of the finest chalk . They are numerous and beautiful beyond conception — as fresh and perfect as if finished yesterday . The ...
... whole fig- ures , some the size of life , and others of various dimensions . The paintings are on back grounds of the finest chalk . They are numerous and beautiful beyond conception — as fresh and perfect as if finished yesterday . The ...
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... whole bearing a very close resemblance to the ' Danforth frame . ' 4th . 18 yards of ' net work ' or lace , figured , similar to that used in the decoration of Solomon's Temple , and of which so frequent mention is made in the book of ...
... whole bearing a very close resemblance to the ' Danforth frame . ' 4th . 18 yards of ' net work ' or lace , figured , similar to that used in the decoration of Solomon's Temple , and of which so frequent mention is made in the book of ...
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... whole silks , in grass - green chequered , and damask robes , -woven in the loom . Over us presided kings , far removed from baseness , and stern chastisers of reprobate and wicked men . They noted down for us according to the doctrine ...
... whole silks , in grass - green chequered , and damask robes , -woven in the loom . Over us presided kings , far removed from baseness , and stern chastisers of reprobate and wicked men . They noted down for us according to the doctrine ...
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... old woman , whose name was Zabozok , replied that her daughter had spun the whole in a week . " In a week ! " exclaimed the astonished prince , " if this be true , I have found a ' gal ' more worthy of my INTRODUCTION . 19.
... old woman , whose name was Zabozok , replied that her daughter had spun the whole in a week . " In a week ! " exclaimed the astonished prince , " if this be true , I have found a ' gal ' more worthy of my INTRODUCTION . 19.
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... whole country . I will send you a load of flax , and if she has it done by the end of a week , I will , without any other proof of her merit , choose her as my bride ; but if not , I will have you both cut in pieces and thrown to the ...
... whole country . I will send you a load of flax , and if she has it done by the end of a week , I will , without any other proof of her merit , choose her as my bride ; but if not , I will have you both cut in pieces and thrown to the ...
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apparatus arrangement attached axis barrel bead lams bobbins breadth breast beam cam shaft carpet carriage Cashmere catch centre cloth roller colours comb connected cross cylinder damask dents design paper double cloth draw loom embroidery fabric fastened figure fixed frame France front fulcrum gauze groove harness board holes hook horizontal improvements inches invention knot lace lash leaf tweel leaves of headles length lever long march machinery manufacture means motion mounting needles operation pantograph passes patent pattern picks of weft piece pincers pinion placed plain plain weaving plate power loom produced pulley purpose raised ratchet wheel reed round screw selvage shawls shed shown in Fig side silk slide Spitalfields spring stripes stud-pin suitable tail cord tappet teeth texture thread breaks tion treadles turned twine upper warp threads weaver weft thread weight wire woven yarn beam
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Page 295 - A wreath, that cannot fade, of flowers, that blow With most success when all besides decay. The poet's or historian's page by one Made vocal for...
Page 20 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Page 46 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the engraver. And of the cunning workman and of the embroiderer, in blue and in purple, in scarlet and in fine linen and of the weaver, even of them that do any work and of those that devise cunning work.
Page 45 - Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
Page 295 - 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 flower...
Page 328 - He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodizing power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in...
Page 124 - some of them were so delicate that they would pass through a man's ring, and a single person could carry a sufficient number of them to surround a whole wood.
Page 46 - Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel shall hallow in all their holy gifts ; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD. 39 And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.
Page 489 - Secretary to the Board of Trustees for the Encouragement of Manufactures in Scotland ; also...
Page 380 - The wise and active conquer difficulties, By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazard, And make th