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... thing , therefore , that is to be done in bleaching , is to take off all the filth that is foreign to the flax , and might , in unfkilful hands , be fixed in the cloth . This is the objec of teeping ; and to accomplish this end , the ...
... thing , therefore , that is to be done in bleaching , is to take off all the filth that is foreign to the flax , and might , in unfkilful hands , be fixed in the cloth . This is the objec of teeping ; and to accomplish this end , the ...
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... thing I can think of : for this foap blunts the hotnefs of the lime . Then I take the cloth and dip it in the lime - ley , and that moment out again , and lay it on a dreeper until it be bucked : then put it on the field , watering it ...
... thing I can think of : for this foap blunts the hotnefs of the lime . Then I take the cloth and dip it in the lime - ley , and that moment out again , and lay it on a dreeper until it be bucked : then put it on the field , watering it ...
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... thing nipping , or blafting . When you come to the proof once , the first blight of froft fhall moft infallibly strip you of all your glory . L'Eftrange . ( 2. ) BLIGHT , in husbandry , a disease incident to plants , which affects them ...
... thing nipping , or blafting . When you come to the proof once , the first blight of froft fhall moft infallibly strip you of all your glory . L'Eftrange . ( 2. ) BLIGHT , in husbandry , a disease incident to plants , which affects them ...
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... things through a staff . Digby- Thofe other two equall'd with me in fate , So were I equall'd with them in renown ... thing in our converfation is pure and genuine ; civility cafts a blind over the duty , under fome customary words ...
... things through a staff . Digby- Thofe other two equall'd with me in fate , So were I equall'd with them in renown ... thing in our converfation is pure and genuine ; civility cafts a blind over the duty , under fome customary words ...
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... thing , but mere exiftence , on the good of- fices of others ; obnoxious to injury from every point , which they are ... things in all their beauties , and varieties , but enables the mind to give body , form , and colour , to ...
... thing , but mere exiftence , on the good of- fices of others ; obnoxious to injury from every point , which they are ... things in all their beauties , and varieties , but enables the mind to give body , form , and colour , to ...
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