A Cyclopædia of Several Thousand Practical Reciepts: And Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, and Trades, Including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy. Designed as a Compendious Book of Reference for the Manufacture, Tradesman, Amateur, and Heads of FamiliesD. Appleton, 1846 - 576 páginas |
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Página 225 - As the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so...
Página 393 - Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Página 51 - For further information on this subject, the reader is referred to the following table, and to the separate articles devoted to the more important alloys.
Página 115 - ... or 8 hours in water, until it becomes tender ; then, drain off the water, and place it in a pit under ground, in layers with fern, and surround it with stones. Leave it to ferment for two or three weeks, until it forms a sort of mucilage, which must be pounded in a mortar, into a mass, and well rubbed between the hands, in running water, until all the refuse is worked out ; then place it in an earthen vessel, and leave it for four or five days to ferment and purify itself. Remarks. Birdlime may...
Página 198 - ... decanted off while still hot, and fresh portions successively added for the repetition of the same operation, until it ceases to act on the residuum, which is then merely sulphate of lime. The different alcoholic solutions are then put into a retort or still, and considerably evaporated, during which, and especially on cooling, acicular crystals of cinchonina are deposited.
Página 257 - In a small treatise on Naval Discipline, lately published, the following whimsical and ingenious mode of punishing drunken seamen is recommended : — " Separate for one month every man who...
Página 126 - The bologna, or philosophical vial, is a small vessel of glass which has been suddenly cooled, open at the upper end, and rounded at the bottom. It is made so thick at tb« bottom that it will bear a smart blow against a hard body without breaking ; but if a little pebble, or piece of flint, is let fall into it, it immediately cracks, and the bottom falls into...
Página 225 - Providence that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head and binding up the broken heart. I was once congratulating a friend who had around him a blooming family knit together in the strongest affection. "I can wish you no better lot," said he, with enthusiasm, " than to have a wife and children.
Página 168 - Before varnishing card-work it must receive two or three coats of size to prevent the absorption of the varnish and any injury to the design. The size may be made by dissolving a little isinglass in hot water, or by boiling some parchment -cuttings until dissolved.
Página 109 - He must be a stupid countryman indeed who cannot make a bee-hive ; and a lazy one indeed if he will not, if he can. In short, there is nothing but care demanded ; and there are very few situations in the country, especially in the south of England, where a labouring man may not have half a dozen stalls of bees to take every year.