Knight's Penny Magazine, Volume 13Charles Knight, 1844 |
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... allowed to cool ; after which it is cut into pieces ready for use . When a less elastic glue is required , it is composed of one part of naphtha to two parts of gum or shell - lac . Previous to using , the glue or cement is heated in an ...
... allowed to cool ; after which it is cut into pieces ready for use . When a less elastic glue is required , it is composed of one part of naphtha to two parts of gum or shell - lac . Previous to using , the glue or cement is heated in an ...
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... allowed to flow into its natural channels , by the removal of restrictions , the value of all the different kinds of wool became appreciated , and each one was appropriated to purposes for which it seemed best fitted ; foreign wool ...
... allowed to flow into its natural channels , by the removal of restrictions , the value of all the different kinds of wool became appreciated , and each one was appropriated to purposes for which it seemed best fitted ; foreign wool ...
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... allowed to grow six or eight inches distant from each other , and are plentifully supplied with water . When the young plants are six or eight inches high , they are watered more sparingly ; but the cultivator strews all over the areas ...
... allowed to grow six or eight inches distant from each other , and are plentifully supplied with water . When the young plants are six or eight inches high , they are watered more sparingly ; but the cultivator strews all over the areas ...
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... allowed to remain five or six weeks be- platform on the other rod , and immediately is carried over another fore being used , that it may deposit in a sediment a equal space . The speed of the engine is fifteen strokes per kind of milky ...
... allowed to remain five or six weeks be- platform on the other rod , and immediately is carried over another fore being used , that it may deposit in a sediment a equal space . The speed of the engine is fifteen strokes per kind of milky ...
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... allowed to run to waste , one of the Italian servants , who happened to be passing , saw the contents of the towel . Turning as white as the salt itself , he exclaimed , In the name of the Virgin , how could you be so imprudent as to ...
... allowed to run to waste , one of the Italian servants , who happened to be passing , saw the contents of the towel . Turning as white as the salt itself , he exclaimed , In the name of the Virgin , how could you be so imprudent as to ...
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Page 181 - And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
Page 10 - Though not a man of them knew wherefore; When Gospel-trumpeter, surrounded With long-eared rout, to battle sounded; And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick : Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a-colonelling. A wight he was whose very sight would Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood...
Page 11 - He ne'er gave quarter to any such. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting, was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack...
Page 31 - He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse ; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl ; A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Page 61 - ... made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk; Whose honesty they all durst swear for, Though not a man of them knew wherefore: When Gospel-Trumpeter, surrounded With long-ear'd rout, to battle sounded, And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist, instead of a stick; Then did Sir Knight abandon dwelling, And out he rode a colonelling.
Page 231 - No life, my honest Scholar, no life so happy and so pleasant, as the life of a wellgoverned Angler ; for when the lawyer is swallowed up with business, and the statesman is preventing or contriving plots, then we sit on cowslip-banks, hear the birds sing, and possess ourselves in as much quietness as these silent silver streams, which we now see glide so quietly by us.
Page 10 - His tawny beard was th' equal grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and dye so like a tile, A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part whereof was whey, The nether orange, mix'd with grey.
Page 11 - prentice to a brewer, Where this and more it did endure, But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. In th' holsters, at his saddle-bow, Two aged pistols he did stow, Aniong the surplus of such meat As in his hose he could not get : ' These would inveigle rats with th...
Page 31 - Free-will they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow. All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin.
Page 244 - Where joy, heart's ease, and comforts grow, You'd scorn proud towers, And seek them in these bowers, Where winds sometimes our woods perhaps may shake, But blustering care could never tempest make, Nor murmurs e'er come nigh us, Saving of fountains that glide by us.