Inquire Within for Anything You Want to KnowDick & Fitzgerald, 1858 - 428 pages |
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... Powder 1009 Antidotes to Poisons 2261 Anti Hooping Cough Powder 1011 Antimony , Poisoning by 2209 Antimonial Powder , Ale , Amber , Brewing .. 2561 | Ale , Brewing 2560 Alkalies , Poisoning by .. 2278 All - Fours , Rules of 2118 All ...
... Powder 1009 Antidotes to Poisons 2261 Anti Hooping Cough Powder 1011 Antimony , Poisoning by 2209 Antimonial Powder , Ale , Amber , Brewing .. 2561 | Ale , Brewing 2560 Alkalies , Poisoning by .. 2278 All - Fours , Rules of 2118 All ...
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... Powder Stale 8111 Boots , To Get on Tight 556 Bread Jelly , to Make .. 3735 Boot Tops Cleaning 2199 Breakfast to lay out .... 8122 Boot top Liquid .. 185 Breasts , Salve for Sore . 3325 Boston Apple - Pudding . 2526 Breast of Mutton ...
... Powder Stale 8111 Boots , To Get on Tight 556 Bread Jelly , to Make .. 3735 Boot Tops Cleaning 2199 Breakfast to lay out .... 8122 Boot top Liquid .. 185 Breasts , Salve for Sore . 3325 Boston Apple - Pudding . 2526 Breast of Mutton ...
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... powder .. 8106 Carver , Give Room to the 2592 Camp Cookery 765 Carving , General Rules 2584 Camphor , an Anti - Spas- Carving and Trussing .. 2608 modic 2705 Carving , Directions for 2609 29 Carving Knives and 2708 2708 2268 Camphor ...
... powder .. 8106 Carver , Give Room to the 2592 Camp Cookery 765 Carving , General Rules 2584 Camphor , an Anti - Spas- Carving and Trussing .. 2608 modic 2705 Carving , Directions for 2609 29 Carving Knives and 2708 2708 2268 Camphor ...
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... Powder ... 8106 Cheap Fuel , Good . 895 Cheese - Cake , Potato .... 126 Chemical Barometer .... 847 Chemical Remedies .... 2764 Chess at Parties .. Chess , Laws of Chestnuts , for Dessert .. 2583 Chest , Bandaging the .. 2209 Chest ...
... Powder ... 8106 Cheap Fuel , Good . 895 Cheese - Cake , Potato .... 126 Chemical Barometer .... 847 Chemical Remedies .... 2764 Chess at Parties .. Chess , Laws of Chestnuts , for Dessert .. 2583 Chest , Bandaging the .. 2209 Chest ...
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... Powders .. 234 828 Curry Powder . 2167 2836 Cough Pills . 989 Curry Powder , Indian .. 168 Constipation , Treat- Cough , Pills for a Bad .. 180 Curtains , Correspond ment of . 1220 Cough , Syrup for 2177 with Carpet .. 678 Consumption ...
... Powders .. 234 828 Curry Powder . 2167 2836 Cough Pills . 989 Curry Powder , Indian .. 168 Constipation , Treat- Cough , Pills for a Bad .. 180 Curtains , Correspond ment of . 1220 Cough , Syrup for 2177 with Carpet .. 678 Consumption ...
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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...