Cottage Comforts: With Hints for Promoting Them, Gleaned from Experience : Enlivened with Authentic AnecdotesSimpkin and Marshall, 1834 - 224 páginas |
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... Garden- Linen posts - An arbour - In doors alterations- White washing- Painting - Grates - Copper - Ironing stove ... Gardening - Selling fruit - Young trees - Flowers -Seeds - Vegetables - An example - Field work - Turnip greens ...
... Garden- Linen posts - An arbour - In doors alterations- White washing- Painting - Grates - Copper - Ironing stove ... Gardening - Selling fruit - Young trees - Flowers -Seeds - Vegetables - An example - Field work - Turnip greens ...
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... GARDENER'S CALENDAR . Miscellaneous obser- vations on Gardening CHAP . X. MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS . A new - born infant- Dressing - Suckling - Cleanliness - Cold water - Improper food - Cordials and opiates - Food - Weaning - Sleeping ...
... GARDENER'S CALENDAR . Miscellaneous obser- vations on Gardening CHAP . X. MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS . A new - born infant- Dressing - Suckling - Cleanliness - Cold water - Improper food - Cordials and opiates - Food - Weaning - Sleeping ...
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... garden , he unluckily tried its edge on an English cherry tree ; which he barked so terribly as to leave very little hope of its recovery . The next morning his father saw the tree , which was a great favourite , in that condition ; and ...
... garden , he unluckily tried its edge on an English cherry tree ; which he barked so terribly as to leave very little hope of its recovery . The next morning his father saw the tree , which was a great favourite , in that condition ; and ...
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... garden ? ' The child hesitated for a moment , and then nobly replied , ' I can't tell a lie , Papa ; — you know I can't tell a lie . I did cut it with my hatchet .'- Run to my arms , my boy ! ' exclaimed his father , ' run to my arms ...
... garden ? ' The child hesitated for a moment , and then nobly replied , ' I can't tell a lie , Papa ; — you know I can't tell a lie . I did cut it with my hatchet .'- Run to my arms , my boy ! ' exclaimed his father , ' run to my arms ...
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... whom she had served . I knew another , who , in her hours of leisure , during the summer months , kept a considerable garden nicely weeded and swept and in the winter furnished the children of a numerous 14 COTTAGE COMFORTS .
... whom she had served . I knew another , who , in her hours of leisure , during the summer months , kept a considerable garden nicely weeded and swept and in the winter furnished the children of a numerous 14 COTTAGE COMFORTS .
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afford allspice amusement answer barley barley water beef tea beer better boiling water borecole bowels bread brewing cabbage castor oil celery child clean cleanliness cloth cold water comfort copper cottage crop drachm electuary endive expense fire flannel flour flowers garden give graft ground gum arabic habits half a pint hand inches keep kind labour lard leeks lettuce liniment liquor loaf mash tub meat medicine milk mixed mother neighbour never nourishing nutmeg occasion onions ounce parsley peas perhaps person pint plants plenty poor potatoes poultice pounds proper public house pudding quantity quart require rubbed salt seed shillings shoots soon spirits of hartshorn stick stir strain suffer sugar sweetened tablespoon full taken teaspoon full thing trees washing weather wine winter yeast young
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Página 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 222 - Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
Página 89 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain b\ the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe naif.
Página 11 - I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.' — 'Run to my arms, you dearest boy,' cried his father in transports, 'run to my arms; glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is more worth than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold.
Página 220 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Página 211 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 89 - And again, he adviseth to circumspection and care, even in the smallest matters, because sometimes a little neglect may breed great mischief; adding, for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of care about a horseshoe nail...
Página 223 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart...
Página 20 - I have a good piece of barley loaf at home to finish with. How I long to be at it ! A noise in the hedge now attracted his notice, and he spied a squirrel nimbly running up a tree, and popping into a hole between the branches. Ha...
Página 20 - Robinet seated himself by his friend, and set his basket on the bench close by him. A tame raven, which was kept at the house, came...