Silk: Its History and Manufacture, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time. Including Instructions for Silk Culture on Osage Orange Or MulberryJ. B. Wadleigh, 1885 - 203 стор. |
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Сторінка 14 - I'll leave behind, as a farewell boon To the proud young princess, my whole cocoon, To be reeled, and wove to a shining lace, And hung in a veil o'er her scornful face! And when she can calmly draw her breath Through the very...
Сторінка 31 - The Reformed Virginian Silk-Worm, or, a Rare and New Discovery of a speedy way, and easie means, found out by a young Lady in England, she having made full proof thereof in May, Anno 1652.
Сторінка 29 - A Note of the Shipping, Men and Provisions sent to Virginia by The Treasurer and Company in the Yeare, 1619.
Сторінка 100 - I espied walking th' other day through Westminster Hall, that had as much ribbon about him as would have plundered six shops and set up twenty country pedlars. All his body was drest like a May-pole or a Tom o
Сторінка 138 - It were to be wished that some expedient might be fallen upon to direct their thoughts from undertakings of this nature ; so much the rather because these manufactures, in process of time, may be carried on in greater degree, unless an early stop be put to their progress by employing them in naval stores.
Сторінка 147 - ... following directions: The cutting should remain two years in the nursery without pruning. The third year it is cut down close to the ground and transplanted. The finest shoot is then allowed to grow, and in good land it will reach a height of 8 or ю feet in one season.
Сторінка 33 - The raw silk, which Great Britain and Ireland are able to consume, will employ forty or fifty thousand persons in that country, nor need they be the strongest, or most industrious part of mankind ; it must be fa weak hand indeed that cannot earn bread where silk-worms and white mulberry trees are so plenty.
Сторінка 31 - Mulberry-Tree-I eaves in Virginia : Who after fourty dayes time, present their most rich golden-coloured silken Fleece, to the instant wonderful enriching of all the Planters there, requiring from them neither cost, labour, or hindrance in any of their other employments whatsoever.
Сторінка 177 - He who makes two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before is a benefactor of the race.
Сторінка 99 - Richesse a robe of purple on had, Ne trow not that she had it mad, N'e by a thousand deale so riche, Ne none so faire, for it full well With orfrais laid was every dell And puttraid in the ribanings. With Dukes stories, and of Kings."— CIIAUCEK.