The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power: With an Introductory Account of Its Rise and Progress in Ancient and Modern Times, for the Use of Manufacturers and Others |
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... give some variety . Materials inexhaustible abound , Which , if well handled , might adorn our pages ; By learning , metaphysical , profound , We might , no doubt , be rank'd among the sages ; The natires too , perhaps , we might ...
... give some variety . Materials inexhaustible abound , Which , if well handled , might adorn our pages ; By learning , metaphysical , profound , We might , no doubt , be rank'd among the sages ; The natires too , perhaps , we might ...
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... gives an insight into the details of private life among the ancient Egyp- tians . By the help of these inscriptions ... give you or me hopes , since not a pinch of dust is left unturned , by us , of the mortal remains of old King Cheops ...
... gives an insight into the details of private life among the ancient Egyp- tians . By the help of these inscriptions ... give you or me hopes , since not a pinch of dust is left unturned , by us , of the mortal remains of old King Cheops ...
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... gives only his own in return . The balance , therefore , must always be in his favour . With these short remarks we shall ... give credit for having invented the most powerful of all ancient machines , " the gods ' eyes puncher . " This ...
... gives only his own in return . The balance , therefore , must always be in his favour . With these short remarks we shall ... give credit for having invented the most powerful of all ancient machines , " the gods ' eyes puncher . " This ...
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... give his version , which is as follows . " There were once an old woman and her daughter who lived at the side of a hill , ( not under a hill , as the Hibernian would fain have it ) in the midst of a forest , near Nodville . They were ...
... give his version , which is as follows . " There were once an old woman and her daughter who lived at the side of a hill , ( not under a hill , as the Hibernian would fain have it ) in the midst of a forest , near Nodville . They were ...
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... give me your eldest son , when he is twelve months and a day old , or that you shall in the intervening time find out my name . " She agreed at once to the terms . The old man , by some mysterious agency , conveyed away the flax , and ...
... give me your eldest son , when he is twelve months and a day old , or that you shall in the intervening time find out my name . " She agreed at once to the terms . The old man , by some mysterious agency , conveyed away the flax , and ...
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Page 60 - Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age : and he made him a coat of many colours.
Page 44 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 47 - The King's daughter is all glorious within ; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework : the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 45 - 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 50 - O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature: on each side her Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which they did cool, And what they undid did . . . Her gentlewomen, like the Nereides, So many mermaids, tended her i...
Page 49 - So I stood upon him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.
Page 50 - The winds were love-sick with them : the oars were silver ; Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke. and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It...
Page 50 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 50 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 44 - And every wise hearted man among them that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work made he them.