Cottage comforts, with hints for promoting them1841 - 80 páginas |
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... ground . Oh I have seen many a smiling merry girl , after a few years ' hardship and privation in the married life , become a poor , peevish , fretful , discontented creature ; so that it has been said with truth and justice , ' You ...
... ground . Oh I have seen many a smiling merry girl , after a few years ' hardship and privation in the married life , become a poor , peevish , fretful , discontented creature ; so that it has been said with truth and justice , ' You ...
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... ground , well secured , where linen may be dried , and vegetables raised , is very desirable : the south - west aspect is the best . A shed for fuel is a de- sirable addition : so also is a pig - sty . And if there is a right of common ...
... ground , well secured , where linen may be dried , and vegetables raised , is very desirable : the south - west aspect is the best . A shed for fuel is a de- sirable addition : so also is a pig - sty . And if there is a right of common ...
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... ground , sow your onions and carrots , plant your potatoes , and prick out your cabbages - they will be growing , without your care and labour , while you repair your house . But if house first , you must go without a crop for that year ...
... ground , sow your onions and carrots , plant your potatoes , and prick out your cabbages - they will be growing , without your care and labour , while you repair your house . But if house first , you must go without a crop for that year ...
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... ground , set them fast with large stones , and fill up the mould round them ; and there you have good , strong , living , growing posts , that will serve you for many years — this I know by experience . The twigs at top will serve to ...
... ground , set them fast with large stones , and fill up the mould round them ; and there you have good , strong , living , growing posts , that will serve you for many years — this I know by experience . The twigs at top will serve to ...
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... ground , answers every purpose . Who would be without such cheap contrivances , and see the cottage dirty , the wife dis- heartened and vexed , and at last , perhaps , the husband too , thrown out of temper , and driven to the public ...
... ground , answers every purpose . Who would be without such cheap contrivances , and see the cottage dirty , the wife dis- heartened and vexed , and at last , perhaps , the husband too , thrown out of temper , and driven to the public ...
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Página 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Página 231 - 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 menpleasers ; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart...
Página 231 - 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 88 - 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 by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Página 228 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Página 11 - I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.
Página 231 - How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against my God ?
Página 207 - The children of Holland take pleasure in making, What the children of England take pleasure in breaking;" I believe their bijouterie and nouveautes are chiefly manufactured for the foreign markets.
Página 20 - I'll try if I can get it. Upon this he set down his basket in the road, and began to climb up the tree. He had half ascended, when, casting a look at his basket, he saw a dog with his nose in it, ferreting out the piece of kid's flesh.
Página 4 - HONESTY THE BEST POLICY. A NOBLEMAN travelling in Scotland, about six years ago, was asked for alms in the High street of Edinburgh, by a little ragged boy. He said he had no change ; upon which the boy offered to procure it. His lordship, in order to get rid of his importunity, gave him a piece of silver, and the boy conceiving it was to be changed, ran off for that purpose.