A second series of useful hints for labourers; selected from the publications of the Labourers' friend society |
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... better members of society ; various suggestions relating to their domestic comfort , and the welfare and happiness of their families ; useful receipts for daily purposes , together with such religious instruction as is calculated to ...
... better members of society ; various suggestions relating to their domestic comfort , and the welfare and happiness of their families ; useful receipts for daily purposes , together with such religious instruction as is calculated to ...
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... better for being put out of harm's way when they are no longer wanted ? Is it nothing to a poor man that the furniture of his house should supply his wants for as long a time as possible ? and thus that he should be saved from the ...
... better for being put out of harm's way when they are no longer wanted ? Is it nothing to a poor man that the furniture of his house should supply his wants for as long a time as possible ? and thus that he should be saved from the ...
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... better , and more profitable than bacon merely dried , but where it is the custom to dry , and not to smoke bacon , it need only to be observed , that the drying should be done at a moderate degree of heat . Some bakers have a room or ...
... better , and more profitable than bacon merely dried , but where it is the custom to dry , and not to smoke bacon , it need only to be observed , that the drying should be done at a moderate degree of heat . Some bakers have a room or ...
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... better . - Magazine of Domestic Economy . The writer states the above as the result of the experience of five brewings . TO BREW ALE OR BEER IN A TEA - KETTLE .-- Put into a tea - pot a handful of malt , and fill it up with hot water ...
... better . - Magazine of Domestic Economy . The writer states the above as the result of the experience of five brewings . TO BREW ALE OR BEER IN A TEA - KETTLE .-- Put into a tea - pot a handful of malt , and fill it up with hot water ...
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... better , as it hastens the hatching of the eggs , and promotes the prolific nature of the queen . This is considered a good time for the purchase of stock hives . Having survived the winter , little fear may be enter- tained of their ...
... better , as it hastens the hatching of the eggs , and promotes the prolific nature of the queen . This is considered a good time for the purchase of stock hives . Having survived the winter , little fear may be enter- tained of their ...
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Página 143 - ... He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
Página 98 - I found this countryman was a member of our Artisans' Library, and every Saturday evening he walked over to the town to exchange his books. I asked him whether reading did not make him less satisfied with his daily work; his answer deserves universal attention : — " Before he read, his work was weary to him ; for, in the solitary fields, an empty head measured the time out tediously, to double its length; but, now, no place was so sweet as the solitary fields: he had always something pleasant floating...
Página 84 - Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Página 65 - Happy is that people, that is in such a case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Página 146 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Página 52 - Of all obstacles to improvement, ignorance is the most formidable, because the only true secret of assisting the poor is to make them agents in bettering their own condition, and to supply them, not with a temporary stimulus, but with a permanent energy.
Página 83 - He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth...
Página 143 - He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.
Página 118 - Punctuality is important, because it subserves the Peace and good Temper of a Family : The want of it not only infringes on necessary Duty, but sometimes excludes this Duty.