Cottage Comforts: With Hints for Promoting Them, Gleaned from Experience : Enlivened with Authentic AnecdotesSimpkin and Marshall, 1834 - 224 páginas |
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... least laborious share of any task that is to be performed . If any young person , who looks forward to a cottage life , will please for a moment to fancy such a cottage scene , it may tend to suppress those risings of selfishness which ...
... least laborious share of any task that is to be performed . If any young person , who looks forward to a cottage life , will please for a moment to fancy such a cottage scene , it may tend to suppress those risings of selfishness which ...
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... least . ' " He went on again , and arrived at a little brook , over which was laid a narrow plank , A young woman coming up to pass at the same time , Robinet gallantly offered her his hand . As soon as she got to the middle , either ...
... least . ' " He went on again , and arrived at a little brook , over which was laid a narrow plank , A young woman coming up to pass at the same time , Robinet gallantly offered her his hand . As soon as she got to the middle , either ...
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... least degree sus- pected of an opposite vice , would be admitted into any re- spectable service ; much less would she be likely to obtain or retain the affections of any steady young man . But I will ask any modest discreet young woman ...
... least degree sus- pected of an opposite vice , would be admitted into any re- spectable service ; much less would she be likely to obtain or retain the affections of any steady young man . But I will ask any modest discreet young woman ...
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... least two rooms up stairs , one of them with a fire - place ; with less than two rooms a nu- merous family cannot be decently and comfortably brought up ; if three , all the better ; we can find a good use for it in by and bye . In the ...
... least two rooms up stairs , one of them with a fire - place ; with less than two rooms a nu- merous family cannot be decently and comfortably brought up ; if three , all the better ; we can find a good use for it in by and bye . In the ...
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... least there should be a place where they may be easily added . A well or pump we have already said is indispensable . And a bit of ground , well secured , where linen may be dried , and vegetables raised , is very desirable : the south ...
... least there should be a place where they may be easily added . A well or pump we have already said is indispensable . And a bit of ground , well secured , where linen may be dried , and vegetables raised , is very desirable : the south ...
Términos y frases comunes
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...