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... known laws of the decomposition of sugar . The production of spirit , in the course of the fermentation of bread , in baking , which has been found to take place , is perhaps the most irrefragable proof of this theory . Flour kneaded ...
... known laws of the decomposition of sugar . The production of spirit , in the course of the fermentation of bread , in baking , which has been found to take place , is perhaps the most irrefragable proof of this theory . Flour kneaded ...
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... known languag- es also favours this conclusion : from the Hebrew word for wine we trace the Greek , and thence vinum in Latin , vino in Italian and Spanish , vin in the French , wein in the Gothic , gwin in the Welsh , win in the ...
... known languag- es also favours this conclusion : from the Hebrew word for wine we trace the Greek , and thence vinum in Latin , vino in Italian and Spanish , vin in the French , wein in the Gothic , gwin in the Welsh , win in the ...
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... known acid liquor called ' vinegar ' ? Because of its derivation from the French vinaigre -from vin , wine , and aigre , sour . Why is vinegar best made from wine ? Because it contains less glutinous and mucilaginous matter than that ...
... known acid liquor called ' vinegar ' ? Because of its derivation from the French vinaigre -from vin , wine , and aigre , sour . Why is vinegar best made from wine ? Because it contains less glutinous and mucilaginous matter than that ...
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... indisposition caused occasionally by eating them ; has arisen the idea of their being poisonous . Why are not whitebait known in the Thames above Blackwall ? Because they are salt water fish , and come and DOMESTIC SCIENCE . 45.
... indisposition caused occasionally by eating them ; has arisen the idea of their being poisonous . Why are not whitebait known in the Thames above Blackwall ? Because they are salt water fish , and come and DOMESTIC SCIENCE . 45.
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... known to burst on the fingers using mercury or handling quicksil- ver . A genuine sovereign , dipped in quicksilver , partly silvered over , and afterwards rubbed with aqua - fortis , has been snapped asunder like a piece of rotten ...
... known to burst on the fingers using mercury or handling quicksil- ver . A genuine sovereign , dipped in quicksilver , partly silvered over , and afterwards rubbed with aqua - fortis , has been snapped asunder like a piece of rotten ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
ancient animals appears archers archery Argand lamp atmosphere become beer birds birds of prey Blumenbach body boiling bones Brand burn called carbonic acid charcoal chemical Christmas church cold colour combustion common conductor contains cooled custom Cuvier earth effect eggs electricity elephant England evaporation falconry feathers feet Ferintosh fermentation festival fire fish flame flavour fluid formerly French glass hair hard water hawks head heat Hence Henry VIII horse hunting Julius Cæsar king lamp less light lime liquor Lord malt matter metal motion muscles nature nests night observed origin oxygen particles persons played portion present probably produced pyroligneous acid quadrupeds quantity Roman round salt Saxon says season Shrove Tuesday species Strutt substance supposed surface swallow teeth temperature tion trees unlucky vapour vegetable vessel whale whip-poor-will wine wings winter wood young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 30 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loos'd his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Página 30 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before, milk-white ; now purple with love's wound — And maidens call it, love-in-idleness l6.
Página 19 - If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.
Página 108 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher, From the earth thou springest, Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Página 11 - It is said that when St. Patrick landed near Wicklow to convert the Irish in 433, the pagan inhabitants were ready to stone him ; he requested to be heard, and endeavoured to explain God to them as the Trinity in Unity, but they could not understand him, till plucking a trefoil from the ground, he said, "Is it not as possible for the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, as for these leaves, to grow upon a single stalk," then the Irish were immediately convinced.* St.
Página 93 - Tis silence all, And pleasing expectation. Herds and flocks Drop the dry sprig, and, mute-imploring, eye The falling verdure. Hushed in short suspense, The plumy people streak their wings with oil, To throw the lucid moisture trickling off, And wait the approaching sign, to strike at once Into the general choir.
Página 90 - I rest my only hope at last, And think, when thou hast dried the bitter tear That flows in vain o'er all my soul held dear, I may look back on every sorrow past, And meet life's peaceful evening with a smile ; — As some lone bird, at day's departing hour, Sings in the sunbeam, of the transient shower Forgetful, though its wings are wet the while ;— Yet ah ! how much must that poor heart endure, Which hopes from thee, and thee alone, a cure.
Página 95 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Página 130 - The notes of this solitary bird, from the ideas which are naturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are listened to by almost all with great interest. At first they issue from some retired part of the woods, the glen, or mountain ; in a few evenings, perhaps, we hear them from the adjoining coppice, the garden fence, the road before the door, and even from the roof of the dwelling-house, long after the family have retired to rest. Some of the more ignorant and...
Página 28 - ... be buried in the open churchyard, and not in the chancel of the minster, as was usual with other bishops...