The Practical Book of Early American Arts and Crafts

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Página 66 - And another also said, Lord, I will follow thee; but let me first go bid them farewell, which are at home at my house. And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Página 125 - ... part of the seventeenth century and the early years of the eighteenth, in the reigns of William and Mary and of Queen Anne.
Página 30 - Door, typical of the style in vogue in the latter part of the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth centuries.
Página 133 - I should be even now drinking it, I believe, if the Ambassador had not charitably notified me at the twelfth cup that I must put my spoon across it when I wished to finish with this sort of warm water.
Página 110 - Engraver, near the Town-House in Cornhill Boston. Engraves all sorts of Stamps in Brass or Pewter for the common Printing Press, Coats of Arms, Crests, Cyphers, &c., on Gold, Silver, Steel, Copper, Brass, or Pewter. He likewise makes Watch Faces, makes and cuts Seals in Gold, Silver, or Steel: or makes Steel Faces for Seals, and sets them handsomely in Gold or Silver. He cuts all sorts of Steel Stamps, Brass Rolls and Stamps for Sadlers and Bookbinders, and does all sorts of work in Gold and Silver....
Página 77 - Fire, feme stich, finny stitch, new stitch, chain stitch, Brave bred stitch, fisher stitch, Irish stitch, and Queen stitch, The Spanish stitch, Rosemary stitch, and mowle stitch, The smarting whip stitch, back stitch, and cross stitch; All these are good, and this we must allow, And they are everywhere in practice now.
Página 144 - ... end of the eighteenth century and the first part of the nineteenth as articles of domestic appointment.
Página 110 - On the 25th past, Departed this life Jeremiah Dummer, Esq.; in the 73rd year of his Age, after a long retirement, under great infirmities of Age and Sickness, having served his country faithfully in several Publick Stations, and obtained...
Página 287 - The first expressions of co-operation were found in the co-operative and communistic colonies which settled on the land in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century and the early part of the Nineteenth Century.
Página 106 - After a little keeping at school I was taken to help my father plant corn which I attended to for several years together; and then by God's good hand I fell to...

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