Cottage Comforts: With Hints for Promoting Them, Gleaned from Experience : Enlivened with Authentic AnecdotesSimpkin and Marshall, 1834 - 224 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 33
Page 2
... begin at the be- ginning , and see that we lay a good foundation . This foundation can be no other than a good moral character ; for it is in vain to talk of comfort , where there is a lazy , drunken , tyrannical husband ; or an idle ...
... begin at the be- ginning , and see that we lay a good foundation . This foundation can be no other than a good moral character ; for it is in vain to talk of comfort , where there is a lazy , drunken , tyrannical husband ; or an idle ...
Page 3
... begin by cultivating the strictest integrity in all their dealings . By honesty , I do not mean merely abstaining from such acts as , if detected , would expose to a halter or a prison , but a nice feeling of principle , that would ...
... begin by cultivating the strictest integrity in all their dealings . By honesty , I do not mean merely abstaining from such acts as , if detected , would expose to a halter or a prison , but a nice feeling of principle , that would ...
Page 12
... begin again . Perhaps she is discouraged — and the next time says , ' Well , it really is not worth while to set about any thing just for two or three minutes ; so she throws away the two or three minutes , which she can never pick up ...
... begin again . Perhaps she is discouraged — and the next time says , ' Well , it really is not worth while to set about any thing just for two or three minutes ; so she throws away the two or three minutes , which she can never pick up ...
Page 27
... begin life upon a decent respectable plan . They might , to be sure , as many have done before them , make shift at first with one room , to eat , sleep , and work in — it might be furnished with an old bedstead , a few rickety chairs ...
... begin life upon a decent respectable plan . They might , to be sure , as many have done before them , make shift at first with one room , to eat , sleep , and work in — it might be furnished with an old bedstead , a few rickety chairs ...
Page 29
... begin in a respectable creditable way , and go on steadily improving , than it is to get out of a state of wretchedness , after having once been ac- customed to it , it is that which makes me so anxious for a good beginning . 48. Well ...
... begin in a respectable creditable way , and go on steadily improving , than it is to get out of a state of wretchedness , after having once been ac- customed to it , it is that which makes me so anxious for a good beginning . 48. Well ...
Common terms and phrases
afford allspice amusement answer barley barley water beef tea beer better boiling water borecole bowels bread brewing cabbage castor oil celery child clean cleanliness cloth cold water comfort copper cottage crop drachm electuary endive expense fire flannel flour flowers garden give graft ground gum arabic habits half a pint hand inches keep kind labour lard leeks lettuce liniment liquor loaf mash tub meat medicine milk mixed mother neighbour never nourishing nutmeg occasion onions ounce parsley peas perhaps person pint plants plenty poor potatoes poultice pounds proper public house pudding quantity quart require rubbed salt seed shillings shoots soon spirits of hartshorn stick stir strain suffer sugar sweetened tablespoon full taken teaspoon full thing trees washing weather wine winter yeast young
Popular passages
Page 18 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 222 - Godliness is profitable for all things; having the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come.
Page 89 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain b\ the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe naif.
Page 11 - I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet.' — 'Run to my arms, you dearest boy,' cried his father in transports, 'run to my arms; glad am I, George, that you killed my tree; for you have paid me for it a thousand fold. Such an act of heroism in my son is more worth than a thousand trees, though blossomed with silver, and their fruits of purest gold.
Page 220 - Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things written in the book of the law to do them.
Page 211 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Page 89 - And again, he adviseth to circumspection and care, even in the smallest matters, because sometimes a little neglect may breed great mischief; adding, for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for want of care about a horseshoe nail...
Page 223 - Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ. Not with eye service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart...
Page 20 - I have a good piece of barley loaf at home to finish with. How I long to be at it ! A noise in the hedge now attracted his notice, and he spied a squirrel nimbly running up a tree, and popping into a hole between the branches. Ha...
Page 20 - Robinet seated himself by his friend, and set his basket on the bench close by him. A tame raven, which was kept at the house, came...