Little Jack of All Trades; Or, Mechanical Arts Described,: In Prose and Verse, Suited to the Capacities of Children. With Engraved Representations of the Different Trades..Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street., 1823 - 66 sider |
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Side 48 - Resolved to smooth his shaggy face He sought the barber of the place 20 A flippant monkey, spruce and smart, Hard by, profess'd the dapper art : His pole, with pewter basins hung, Black rotten teeth in order strung, Ranged cups that in the window stood, 25 Lined with red rags to look like blood, Did well his threefold trade explain, Who shaved, drew teeth, and breathed a vein.
Side 6 - As to the method of printing, we shall only observe, that the types, or letters, are distributed each kind by itself, in cases. The compositor, placing the copy of the work before him, picks up letter by letter, and arranges them in order to form words and sentences, till he has composed a page, and so on for the whole work ; the degree of expedition and despatch, with which this is carried on, is not easily to be conceived. The instrument in which the letters are set is called a composing, stick....
Side 8 - ... bottom, by interweaving a large wire in any particular form. This mould the maker dips into the liquor, and gives it a shake as he takes it out, to clear the water from the pulp. He then slides it along a groove to the coucher, who turns out the sheet upon a felt...
Side 8 - ... a sufficient quantity of water. At the bottom of the trough is a plate with steel bars ground sharp like the former; and the engine being carried round with prodigious velocity, reduces the rags to a pulp in a very short time. It must be observed...