Harry and Lucy Concluded;: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, Volumen2R. Hunter, ... and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1827 - 354 páginas |
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... clay of this part of England being fit for making some kinds of earthen ware , there have been potteries , or remains of potteries , in Staffordshire , ever since the time when the Romans were in Britain ; but they had continued in a ...
... clay of this part of England being fit for making some kinds of earthen ware , there have been potteries , or remains of potteries , in Staffordshire , ever since the time when the Romans were in Britain ; but they had continued in a ...
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... clay ; he succeeded to his hopes , and made white stone ware , which put all the brown and coloured stone ware out of fa- shion . Ugly as you think it , Lucy , it was much approved , till Wedgwood came , and gave us something better ...
... clay ; he succeeded to his hopes , and made white stone ware , which put all the brown and coloured stone ware out of fa- shion . Ugly as you think it , Lucy , it was much approved , till Wedgwood came , and gave us something better ...
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... clay which the Chinese use . Mr. Wedgwood introduced Dorsetshire and Cornwall clays . " " Perhaps you could tell me , sir , " said Lucy , " how the delicate blue of the ground of this flower - pot is made . " " That is given by a ...
... clay which the Chinese use . Mr. Wedgwood introduced Dorsetshire and Cornwall clays . " " Perhaps you could tell me , sir , " said Lucy , " how the delicate blue of the ground of this flower - pot is made . " " That is given by a ...
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... clays and minerals , and what effect would be produced on these by fire . In short , he applied to the study of chemistry and mineralogy , to learn all the experi- ments which had been made by others , and then he tried new ones for ...
... clays and minerals , and what effect would be produced on these by fire . In short , he applied to the study of chemistry and mineralogy , to learn all the experi- ments which had been made by others , and then he tried new ones for ...
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... clay , and by stirring , and beating , and straining through sieves , this became first a sort of pulp , and then about as thick as paste or dough , and then it was ready for the man to carry to the potter's - wheel . You know the pot ...
... clay , and by stirring , and beating , and straining through sieves , this became first a sort of pulp , and then about as thick as paste or dough , and then it was ready for the man to carry to the potter's - wheel . You know the pot ...
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Página 148 - So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf to make an apple pie ; and at the same time a great she-bear coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. What, no soap...
Página 149 - So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies, and the Garyulies, and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top; and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.
Página 331 - Amidst this company stood Mr Watt, the man whose genius discovered the means of multiplying our national resources to a degree perhaps even beyond his own stupendous powers of calculation and combination ; bringing the treasures of the abyss to the summit of the earth — giving the feeble arm of man the momentum of an Afrite — commanding manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert, affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man,...
Página 329 - And well, with ready hand and heart, Each task of toilsome duty taking, Did one dear inmate take her part. The last asleep, the earliest waking. Her hands each nightly couch prepared, And frugal meal on which they fared ; Unfolding spread the servet white, And decked the board with tankard bright. Through fretted hose, and garment rent, Her tiny needle deftly went, Till hateful penury, so graced, Was scarcely in their dwelling traced.
Página 332 - Afrite — commanding - manufactures to arise, as the rod of the prophet produced water in the desert — affording the means of dispensing with that time and tide which wait for no man ; and of sailing without that wind, which defied the commands and threats of Xerxes himself. This potent commander of the elements...
Página 151 - All work and no play Makes Jack a dull boy All play and no work Makes Jack a mere toy.
Página 328 - ... endured but from necessity, they were contriving other places of safety for him ; amongst others, particularly one under a bed which drew out, in a ground floor, in a room of which my mother kept the key. She and the same man worked in the night, making a hole in the earth, after lifting the boards ; which they did by scratching it up with their hands, not to make any noise, till she...
Página 150 - ... but she perfectly well remembered the Picninnies : and she knew why she did — because their name was something like Piccanini ; and this word had been fixed in her head by a droll anecdote she had heard of a negro boy, who, when he was to tell his master that Mr. Gosling had called upon him, and could not recollect his name, said he knew the gentleman was a Mr. Goose Piccanini.
Página 332 - This potent commander of the elements — this abridger of time and space — this magician, whose cloudy machinery has produced a change on the world, the effects of which, extraordinary as they are, are perhaps only now beginning to be felt — was not only the most profound man of science, the most successful combiner of powers and calculator of numbers as adapted to practical purposes, — was not only one of the most generally well-informed...
Página 328 - ... a ground floor, in a room of which my mother kept the key. She and the same man worked in the night, making a hole in the earth, after lifting the boards; which they did by scratching it up with their hands, not to make any noise, till she left not a nail upon her fingers; she helping the man to carry the earth, as they dug it, in a sheet on his back, out at the window into the garden.