Inquire Within for Anything You Want to KnowDick & Fitzgerald, 1858 - 428 pages |
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... Dresses 515 Bleached Straw Bonnets 2492 Bleeding at the Nose .. 1836 Bleeding from the Nose 2249 Bleeding , Surgical 2226 Bleeding , to Stop Blistered Feet , Remedy for .... 2226 1278 1308 Blight , to keep from Rose Trees .. Blond Lace ...
... Dresses 515 Bleached Straw Bonnets 2492 Bleeding at the Nose .. 1836 Bleeding from the Nose 2249 Bleeding , Surgical 2226 Bleeding , to Stop Blistered Feet , Remedy for .... 2226 1278 1308 Blight , to keep from Rose Trees .. Blond Lace ...
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... Dresses Cleaning Feathers Cleaning Ostrich Fea . 657 thers 2530 Coal Measure 27 Coal , to Obtain Good . 2565 Cocoanut Pie 10 COF - CON CON - COU COU - CUT. CHE - CHL CHI - CLA CLE - COL Cheese , to destroy mites in ... 8732 Charcoal ...
... Dresses Cleaning Feathers Cleaning Ostrich Fea . 657 thers 2530 Coal Measure 27 Coal , to Obtain Good . 2565 Cocoanut Pie 10 COF - CON CON - COU COU - CUT. CHE - CHL CHI - CLA CLE - COL Cheese , to destroy mites in ... 8732 Charcoal ...
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... Dress , How a lady should 8299 Dress , How to , with taste 3258 Dress for balls and parties 3295 Dress , general rule for .. 830 Dress , the most Elegant 3300 Dress , Ladies , on Fire .. 704 Dress , Female . ... 280 D Directions for Icing .
... Dress , How a lady should 8299 Dress , How to , with taste 3258 Dress for balls and parties 3295 Dress , general rule for .. 830 Dress , the most Elegant 3300 Dress , Ladies , on Fire .. 704 Dress , Female . ... 280 D Directions for Icing .
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... Dress .... 280 2243 Female Temper ... 282 393 Eyes , Cure for sore .... 165 Fennel , When to Gather 2462 Fevers ... Dresses , Bleach- ing .... 515 Failures of Shopkeepers 2826 Failures of Large Shop- keepers 2830 Faintness , Treatment of ...
... Dress .... 280 2243 Female Temper ... 282 393 Eyes , Cure for sore .... 165 Fennel , When to Gather 2462 Fevers ... Dresses , Bleach- ing .... 515 Failures of Shopkeepers 2826 Failures of Large Shop- keepers 2830 Faintness , Treatment of ...
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... Dress on Fire .. Lamb , Fried in Slices .. Lamb , remarks on Roast- ing Lamb , to choose good .. Lamp Oil , the best Lamp Shades , Diaphanie Lamp , to prevent smok- ing Lamp , to prevent smok- ing Lamp Wicks from old stockings Lancers ...
... Dress on Fire .. Lamb , Fried in Slices .. Lamb , remarks on Roast- ing Lamb , to choose good .. Lamp Oil , the best Lamp Shades , Diaphanie Lamp , to prevent smok- ing Lamp , to prevent smok- ing Lamp Wicks from old stockings Lancers ...
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Page 403 - I see by little and little more of what is to be done, and how it is to be done, should I ever be able to do it.
Page 153 - A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees, as Poor Richard says. Perhaps they have had a small estate left them, which they knew not the getting of; they think 'Tis day, and will never be night...
Page 153 - Pride is as loud a beggar as Want, and a great deal more saucy.' When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece ; but poor Dick says, ' It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.
Page 153 - He means, that perhaps the cheapness is apparent only, and not real; or the bargain, by straitening thee in thy business, may do thee more harm than good. For in another place he says, Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths.
Page 344 - I returned ; and, loosing from the stake the string with the little stick which was fastened to it, went again into the water, where I found, that, lying on my back and holding the stick in my hands, I was drawn along the surface of the water in a very agreeable manner. Having then engaged another boy to carry my clothes round the pond...
Page 152 - So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business, but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, "keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a groat at last. A fat kitchen makes a lean will," and " Many estates are spent in the getting, Since women for tea forsook spinning and knitting, And men for punch forsook hewing and splitting.
Page 145 - Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe, and quiet, and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.
Page 209 - Who to his plighted vows and trust has ever firmly stood ; And though he promise to his loss, he makes his promise good.
Page 63 - Take half bushel of nice unslacked lime, slack i with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water ; three pounds of ground rice, boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot ; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been...
Page 211 - Peel and cut into very small pieces three onions, three turnips, one carrot, and four potatoes, put them into a stewpan with a quarter of a pound of butter, the same of lean ham, and a bunch of parsley, pass them ten minutes over a sharp fire ; then add a...