The book of object lessons, a teacher's manualLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 - 156 sider |
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Side 6
... feet high , open at top , closed at the bottom , air introduced by a blast- pipe ) filled with ore , coke , and limestone ; metal becomes fluid ; sinks ; furnace tapped about every twelve hours ; run into furrows and channels of dry ...
... feet high , open at top , closed at the bottom , air introduced by a blast- pipe ) filled with ore , coke , and limestone ; metal becomes fluid ; sinks ; furnace tapped about every twelve hours ; run into furrows and channels of dry ...
Side 8
... feet under the surface . Black - lead found in Borrowdale ( seven miles south - west of Keswick ) ; in the coal - beds of Ar- gyleshire . III . Process of Preparation . Ore called galena ; broken ; washed ; roasted in reverberatory ...
... feet under the surface . Black - lead found in Borrowdale ( seven miles south - west of Keswick ) ; in the coal - beds of Ar- gyleshire . III . Process of Preparation . Ore called galena ; broken ; washed ; roasted in reverberatory ...
Side 10
... feet deep . Discovered by a peasant , soaking a new pail in a stream ; filled it with sand ; found it very heavy ; carried some of its contents to the village priest ; when examined , mercury found mixed with the sand . Afterwards mines ...
... feet deep . Discovered by a peasant , soaking a new pail in a stream ; filled it with sand ; found it very heavy ; carried some of its contents to the village priest ; when examined , mercury found mixed with the sand . Afterwards mines ...
Side 12
... feet in height and three miles in circumference . In India , a whole range of salt hills . Salt plains in the Sahara and Abyssinia ; latter contains one of four days ' journey in extent . Most remarkable mines : : - That of Wielitckza ...
... feet in height and three miles in circumference . In India , a whole range of salt hills . Salt plains in the Sahara and Abyssinia ; latter contains one of four days ' journey in extent . Most remarkable mines : : - That of Wielitckza ...
Side 15
... feet high , perforated in every direction ; ore den- dritic , resembles the branches of a tree in form . The silver produced conveyed from the mines by means of the llama ; thirty thousand so employed . Discovered by accident ; a ...
... feet high , perforated in every direction ; ore den- dritic , resembles the branches of a tree in form . The silver produced conveyed from the mines by means of the llama ; thirty thousand so employed . Discovered by accident ; a ...
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Side 57 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Side 156 - With her great Master so to sympathize : It was no season then for her To wanton with the sun, her lusty paramour. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air, To hide her guilty front with innocent snow ; And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes, Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Side 83 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Side 138 - England's dead. The warlike of the isles, The men of field and wave ! Are not the rocks their funeral piles, The seas and shores their grave...
Side 90 - Deep in the wave is a Coral Grove, Where the purple mullet and gold-fish rove, Where the sea-flower spreads its leaves of blue, That never are wet with falling dew, But in bright and changeful beauty shine, Far down in the green and glassy brine.
Side 73 - Millions of millions thus, from age to age, With simplest skill and toil unweariable, No moment and no movement unimproved, Laid line on line, on terrace terrace spread, To swell the heightening, brightening gradual mound, By marvellous structure climbing towards the day.
Side 94 - Their rein-deer form their riches. These, their tents, Their robes, their beds, and all their homely wealth Supply, their wholesome fare, and cheerful cups Obsequious at their call, the docile tribe Yield to the sled their necks, and whirl them swift O'er hill and dale...
Side 116 - That have beauty but no perfume! Come, show us the rose, with a hundred dyes, The lily, that hath no spot; The violet, deep as your true love's eyes, and the little forget-me-not!
Side 27 - ... embalms the bodies of the dead. The noble trunk itself is far from being valueless. Sawn into posts, it upholds the islander's dwelling; converted into charcoal, it cooks his food; and supported on blocks of stone, rails in his lands. He impels his canoe through the water with a paddle of the wood, and goes to battle with clubs and spears of the same hard material.
Side 44 - Bear me, Pomona ! to thy citron groves ; To where the lemon and the piercing lime, With the deep orange, glowing through the green, Their lighter glories blend.