The Health exhibition literature. v. 9, 9. köideW. Clowes & Sons, 1884 |
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Page 35 - Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene! How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill, The hawthorn bush with seats beneath the shade, For talking age and whispering lovers made!
Page 35 - Dear lovely bowers of innocence and ease, Seats of my youth, when every sport could please, How often have I loitered o'er thy green, Where humble happiness endeared each scene...
Page 18 - No, it is dangerous to take a whale ; it is safer for me to go to the river with my ship than to go with many ships to hunt whales." — ' Why ?' " Because it is more pleasant to me to take fish which I can kill with one blow ; yet many take whales without danger, and then they get a great price, but I dare not, from the fearfulness of my mind.
Page 117 - ... stability and meaning to the process. Social life, for example, is accepted as the test of value of any curriculum or method. The method of testing processes by their results has been carried over into this realm. The school is an institution designed to insure social continuity and social progress. There is a vast deal to be done in the way of embodying the new points of view in concrete form.
Page 16 - They ate various kinds of fish ; but, of this description of their animal food, the species which is most profusely noticed is the eel. They used eels as abundantly as swine. Two grants are mentioned, each yielding one thousand eels,0 and by another two thousand were received as an annual rent. Four thousand eels were a yearly present from the monks of Ramsay to those of Peterborough/* We read of two places purchased for twentyone pounds, wherein sixteen thousand of these fish were caught...
Page 199 - ... inches, so that the lip just supports the tube, and place the brass or copper plate on the ring of a retort- stand. Heat the tube nearly to redness, to expel the last trace of moisture ; and, when cold, put the copper strips within, and place over it, resting on the mouth of the tube, a microscopic slide, warmed in a spirit-lamp till all the moisture at first deposited has disappeared. Now heat the tube with the spirit-lamp, letting the flame play on the under side of the brass plate.
Page 275 - Among the actual results of the opening of the Health Exhibition, not the least important is the issue of a series of Official Handbooks that practically illustrate the science of health in all its manifold aspects The general excellence of the first instalment of these handbooks promises well for the value and completeness of the series ; while the price at which they are issued, should assure the success they merit."— Saturday Review.
Page 49 - Then the poultry will return a profitable income in eggs and in ' broilers ;' and altogether it is easy for an enthusiastic person to show how interest on invested capital and good compensation for labour are to be secured in agriculture. " But when the test of practice is applied to our wellstudied and proven scheme ; when we see how far our allowance for ' chances ' has fallen below what is needed to cover the contingencies of late springs, dry summers, early frosts, grass-hoppers, wire-worms,...