Lady Bountiful's Legacy to Her Family and Friends: A Book of Practical Instructions & Duties, Counsels & Experiences, Anecdotes, Hints, & Recipes, in Housekeeping & Domestic Management, Calculated to Increase the Comforts of House and HomeJohn Timbs |
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... glass , or changed the fashion of her attire . Lady Langham , before she went out , took care to furnish her ' poor man's purse ' with money to be distributed among necessitous objects in her way . Lady Maynard and Lady Vere , too ...
... glass , or changed the fashion of her attire . Lady Langham , before she went out , took care to furnish her ' poor man's purse ' with money to be distributed among necessitous objects in her way . Lady Maynard and Lady Vere , too ...
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... water , a grain of musk , and isin- glass ; boil and strain for use into a mould , and eat when cold . Brawn is the fleshy or muscular parts of a boar from two to five years of age . It has been from Progress of Cookery and HOUSEWIFERY .
... water , a grain of musk , and isin- glass ; boil and strain for use into a mould , and eat when cold . Brawn is the fleshy or muscular parts of a boar from two to five years of age . It has been from Progress of Cookery and HOUSEWIFERY .
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... glasses , or car- pets . In a merchant's house of about the same period , we find the parlour had wainscot , a table , and a few chairs ; the chambers above had two best beds , and there was one servant's bed ; but the inferior servants ...
... glasses , or car- pets . In a merchant's house of about the same period , we find the parlour had wainscot , a table , and a few chairs ; the chambers above had two best beds , and there was one servant's bed ; but the inferior servants ...
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... glass , as is often done , because the glass may cover over some sources of effluvia , and bring them into the house . This has been the cause of fever . The supply of air to the apartments should be large ; diffused , and not in percep ...
... glass , as is often done , because the glass may cover over some sources of effluvia , and bring them into the house . This has been the cause of fever . The supply of air to the apartments should be large ; diffused , and not in percep ...
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... glasses and chimneypieces are in economical houses festooned with flimsy gauze drapery , at least in summer . Our curtains are muslins , and our toilet - tables are draped with the same light material ; and some one has described our ...
... glasses and chimneypieces are in economical houses festooned with flimsy gauze drapery , at least in summer . Our curtains are muslins , and our toilet - tables are draped with the same light material ; and some one has described our ...
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Page 268 - The inferior priestess, at her altar's side, Trembling begins the sacred rites of pride. Unnumbered treasures ope at once, and here The various offerings of the world appear; From each she nicely culls with curious toil, And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil.
Page 268 - Grace, And calls forth all the Wonders of her Face ; Sees by Degrees a purer Blush arise, And keener Lightnings quicken in her Eyes.
Page 34 - Than in five acres now of rented land. Content with little, I can piddle here On brocoli and mutton, round the year ; But ancient friends (though poor, or out of play) That touch my bell, I cannot turn away.
Page 141 - What maintains one Vice, would bring up two Children. "You may think perhaps, that a little Tea, or a little Punch now and then, Diet a little more costly, Clothes a little finer, and a little Entertainment now and then, can be no great Matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, Many a Little makes a Mickle...
Page 11 - Touched by remembrance, trembles to that pole; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace. The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 141 - Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgment, and a firm, sagacious mind.
Page 28 - A table richly spread, in regal mode, With dishes piled, and meats of noblest sort And savour, beasts of chase, or fowl of game, In pastry built, or from the spit, or boiled, Gris-amber-steamed ; all fish from sea or shore, Freshet, or purling brook, of shell or fin, And exquisitest name, for which was drained Pontus, and Lucrine Bay, and Afric coast.
Page 56 - Distrust the condiment that bites so soon; But deem it not, thou man of herbs, a fault To add a double quantity of salt; Four times the spoon with oil of Lucca crown, And twice with vinegar procured from town; And lastly o'er the flavoured compound toss A magic soupcon of anchovy sauce.
Page 11 - Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Page 75 - If it were so that our fathers or the goodman of the house had within seven years after his marriage purchased a mattress or flock-bed, and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town, that peradventure lay seldom in a bed of down or whole feathers, so well were they contented and with such base kind of furniture.