The Museum of Science and Art, Volume 2Dionysius Lardner Walton and Maberly, 1854 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 92 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Pagina 114 - Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter : so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it.
Pagina 142 - Fond, writing on this subject, says, " its excellent workmanship, its solidity, the advantage which it possesses of sustaining the action of fire, its fine glaze impenetrable to acids, the beauty and convenience of its form, and the cheapness of its price, have given rise to a commerce so active and so universal, that in travelling from Paris to Petersburg!!, from Amsterdam to the...
Pagina 24 - ... with the comparatively rude though efficient structure of the mechanism of their steam-boats. All the vessels more recently constructed are accordingly finished and even decorated in the most luxurious manner. In respect of the accommodations which, they afford to passengers, no water communication in any country in the world can compare with them. Nothing can exceed the splendour and luxury of the furniture. Silk, velvet, and the most expensive carpeting, mirrors of immense magnitude, gilding...
Pagina 114 - Lord came to me, saying, 0 house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this. potter ? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Pagina 39 - York is already in operation. From Albany an extensive line of railway communication, 323 miles in length, is carried across the entire State of New York to Buffalo, at the head of Lake Erie, with branches to some important places on the one side and on the other. This line forms the continuation of the western railway, carried from Boston to Albany, and, combined with this latter, completes the continuous railway communication from the...
Pagina 186 - setting in " the oven, the firemen enter by an opening in the side, carrying the saggers with the ware placed as described : these are piled one upon another from bottom to top of the oven, care being taken to arrange them so that they may receive the heat (which varies in different parts) most suited to the articles they contain. This being continued till the oven is filled, the aperture is then bricked up : the firing of earthenware bisque continues sixty hours, and of china forty-eight. The quantity...
Pagina 37 - Travelling in the backwoods of Mississippi, through native forests where, till within a few years, human foot never trod, through solitudes the stillness of which was never broken even by the red man, I have been filled with wonder to find myself drawn on a railway by an engine...
Pagina 164 - The qualities which it is the object of the manufacturer to give to porcelain of the finest description, are density, whiteness, transparency, and fine texture of the glaze. These properties are estimated in the order wherein they are here enumerated, compactness of body being the point which it is considered most desirable to attain. The glaze, as seen in the finished porcelain, should not put on a lustrous appearance ; but while beautifully smooth to the touch, should present to the eye rather...
Pagina 114 - I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon rny name: and he shall come upon princes as upon mortar, and as the potter treadeth clay.