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Page 135 - Chemists and Medicine Vendors at Home and Abroad. Sent free by post in the United Kingdom for 8, 14, or 33 stamps.
Page 9 - workshop" means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade or for purposes of gain in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article...
Page 13 - A young person or woman shall not be employed continuously for more than four hours and a half without an interval of at least half an hour for a meal.
Page 135 - LIVER, and KIDNEYS; also in RHEUMATISM, ULCERS, SORES, and all SKIN DISEASES, are sufficient to prove the great value of this most useful Family Medicine, it being A DIRECT PURIFIER OF THE BLOOD and other fluids of the human body. Many persons have found them of great service both in preventing and relieving SEA SICKNESS ; and in warm climates they are very beneficial in all Bilious Complaints.
Page 14 - Land of the North Wind; or Travels among the Laplanders and Samoyedes, and along the Shores of the White Sea.
Page 110 - SIR, I AM commanded by the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you that, the...
Page 81 - The ready and easy Way to establish a free Commonwealth, and the Excellence thereof, compared with the Inconveniences and Dangers of re-admitting Kingship in this Nation.
Page 81 - Post," in 1695, announces, that " if any gentleman has a mind to oblige his country friend or correspondent with this account of public affairs, he may have it for two-pence of J. Salisbury, at the Rising Sun in Cornhill, on a sheet of fine paper, half of which being blank, he may thereon write his own private business, or the material news of the day.
Page 13 - ... work the present full day's wages,' such eight hours to be performed between the hours of six in the morning and six in the evening ; and that this new regulation should commence on the first day of March next.
Page 134 - By the means of catalogues only can it be known, what has been written on every part of learning, and the hazard avoided of encountering difficulties which have already been cleared, discussing questions which have already been decided, and digging in mines of literature which former ages have exhausted.

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