The Arts of Life, Described in a Series of Letters: 1. Providing Food.--2. Providing Clothing.--3. Providing Shelter. For the Instruction of Young PersonsCarter & Hendee, 1830 - 158 sider |
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The Arts of Life, Described in a Series of Letters: 1. Providing Food.--2 ... John Aikin Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1830 |
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Side 134 - All things to man's delightful use: the roof Of thickest covert was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf: on either side Acanthus and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall; each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and...
Side 99 - With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece; Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms the eternal line; Slow, with soft lips, the whirling can acquires The tender skeins, and wraps in rising spires; With quicken'd pace successive rollers move, And these retain, and those extend the rove; Then fly the spoles, the rapid axles glow, And slowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below.
Side 140 - ... notched at the ends to keep them fast together. The crevices are plaistered with clay or the stiffest earth which can be had, mixed with moss or straw. The roof is either bark or split boards. The chimney a pile of stones; within which a fire is made on the ground, and a hole is left in the roof for the smoke to pass out. Another hole is made in the side of the house for a window, which is occasionally closed with a wooden shutter.
Side 66 - He had with him his Gun and a Knife, with a small Horn of Powder, and a few Shot; which being spent, he contrived a way by notching his Knife, to saw the barrel of his Gun into small pieces, wherewith he made Harpoons, Lances, Hooks and a long Knife; heating the pieces first in the fire, which he struck with his Gunflint, and a piece of the barrel of his Gun, which he hardened; having learnt to do that among the English. The hot pieces of Iron he would hammer out and bend as he pleased with Stones...
Side 98 - The cotton wool is first picked from the pods and seeds by women ; it is then carded by cylindrical cards, which move against each other with different velocities. It is taken from these by an iron hand or comb, which has a motion similar to that of scratching, and takes the wool off the cards longitudinally in respect to the fibres or staple, producing a continued line loosely cohering .> -: called the rove or roving. This rove, yet very loosely twisted, is then received or drawn into a whirling...
Side 99 - First, with nice eye, emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool ; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the ravell'd fleece : Next moves the iron hand with fingers fine, Combs the wide card, and forms th
Side 99 - And wields his trident, — while the Monarch spins. — First with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool...
Side 92 - ... art may, however, not be thrown away. I have already told you, that weaving may be regarded as a finer kind of matting. To perform it, the threads, which form the length of a piece of cloth, are first disposed in order, and strained by weights to a proper tightness ; and this is called the warp. These threads are divided, by an instrument called a reed, into two sets, each composed of every other thread ; and while, by the working of a treadle, each set is thrown alternately up and down, the...
Side 118 - At this indication of their approaching change, twigs arc placed over them upon little stages of wicker-work, on which they immediately begin to form their webs. When these are finished, the downy matter on the outside, called floss, is taken off, and the cocoons are thrown into warm water, to dissolve the glutinous particles which had caused the silk to adhere : the ends of the threads being found, several are joined together and wound upon a reel ; this is called...
Side 98 - ... comb, which has a motion similar to that of scratching, and takes the wool off the cards longitudinally in respect to the fibres or staple, producing a continued line loosely cohering, called the Rove or Roving. This Rove, yet very loosely twisted, is then received or drawn into a whirling canister, and is rolled by the centrifugal force in spiral lines within it; being yet too tender for the spindle. It is then passed between two pairs of rollers; the second pair moving faster than the first...