The child's guide to knowledge, by a lady [F. Ward].Simpkin, 1862 - 460 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
ancient animal annual plant Asia bark beautiful boiled brought burnt called celebrated chiefly China cloth colour common copper cotton cultivated curious diamond distilled dress dried duced dyeing East Indies Egypt England esteemed Europe famous feet finest flavour formed France fruit glass gloves Gobelin gold grapes grows gutta percha hair heat Henry Henry VIII India Indian invented iron isinglass island Italy juice kind king leather leaves linen manufacture Mark Antony medicine melted metal milk mixed native needle obtained ornamental otto of roses painting paper pearls perfume Persia plant polished pounds powder prepared principally produce quantity Queen reign rich Romans salt Scotland silk silk-worm silver skin sort South America Spain species spermaceti stone substance sugar Syria tapestry threads tion tree valuable valued vessels West Indies whence wine wood wool yellow
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Página 206 - Juste, amused himself with the mechanical arts, and particularly with that of a watch-maker ; he one day exclaimed, " what an egregious fool must I have been to have squandered so much blood and treasure, in an absurd attempt to make all men think alike, when I cannot even make a few watches keep time together.
Página 170 - TAPESTRY ; a kind of woven hangings of wool and silk, frequently raised and enriched with gold and silver, representing figures of men, animals, landscapes, historical subjects, &c.
Página 162 - I., while King of Scotland, was forced to beg of the Earl of Mar the loan of a pair of silk stockings to appear in before the English ambassador, enforcing his request with the cogent appeal, " For ye would not, sure, that your king should appear as a scrub before strangers...
Página 215 - Glazed windows were considered as moveable furniture, and probably bore a high price. When the earls of Northumberland, as late as the reign of Elizabeth, left Alnwick castle, the windows were taken out of their frames, and carefully laid by.
Página 275 - ... clusters of artificial flowers on gold stems. The largest emerald that has been mentioned, is one said to have been possessed by the inhabitants of the Valley of Manta, in Peru, at the time when the Spaniards first arrived there. It is recorded to have been as big as an ostrich's egg, and to have been worshipped by the Peruvians, under the name of the goddess or mother of emeraldi.
Página 221 - ... that in winter his apartments were every day covered with clean hay and straw, and in summer with green rushes, or boughs, that the gentlemen who paid court to him, and who could not, by reason of their numbers, find a place at table, might not soil their fine clothes by sitting on a dirty floor.
Página 188 - As he stood or kneeled before her, she dropped her glove ; perhaps not undesignedly ; and on his picking it up, graciously desired him to keep it. He caused the trophy to be encircled with diamonds ; and ever after, at all tilts and tourneys, bore it conspicuously placed in front of his high-crowned hat, But the emergencies of the year 1.588 summoned - ; > - j - • ....:.. fi ...,..;•. ; . . . 1 KARL OF CUMBERLAND.
Página 302 - The event is of that importance, that it may be said to constitute an era in the annals of the nation. The fortunate discoverer is rewarded with a crown of silver, and with a grant of land equal in extent to the space of country at which the elephants' cry may be heard. He and his family, to the third generation, are exempted from all sorts of servitude, and their land from taxation.
Página 410 - Thucydides, it was used for the cofiins of eminent warriors ; and many of the chests which enclose Egyptian mummies are made of it. The latter afford very decisive proof of its almost incorruptible nature. The name of this tree is derived from the island of Cyprus, in the Mediterranean, where it still grows in great luxuriance. Its gloomy hue caused it to be consecrated, by the ancients, to Pluto, and to be used at the funerals of people of eminence. Pliny states that, in his time, it was customary...
Página 413 - The blacks and natives are then seen hastening from all quarters, furnished with large bowls to receive the milk, which grows yellow, and thickens at its surface.