The Art of Perfumery and the Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants: With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetics, Perfumed Soap, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Preparing Artificial Fruit-essences, Etc |
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Page 36 - God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked ; that there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it ; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 240 - All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Page 36 - If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
Page 18 - And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
Page 122 - To dress thy bower, and trim thy new abode. Myself will search our planted grounds at home, For downy peaches and the glossy plum : And thrash the chestnuts in the neighbouring grove, Such as my Amaryllis used to love. -The laurel and the myrtle sweets agree ; And both in nosegays shall be bound for thee.
Page 30 - That all women of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether virgins, maids or widows, that shall from and after such Act impose upon, seduce, and betray into matrimony any of his Majesty's subjects by the scents...
Page 169 - The forward violet thus did I chide : Sweet thief, whence didst thou steal thy sweet that smells, If not from my love's breath ? The purple pride Which on thy soft cheek for complexion dwells In my love's veins thou hast too grossly dyed.
Page 17 - And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations.
Page 32 - ... the Right Honourable Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, came from Italy, and brought with him gloves...
Page 18 - And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. 38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
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| Title | The Art of Perfumery and the Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants: With Instructions for the Manufacture of Perfumes for the Handkerchief, Scented Powders, Odorous Vinegars, Dentifrices, Pomatums, Cosmetics, Perfumed Soap, Etc., to which is Added an Appendix on Preparing Artificial Fruit ... |
| Author | George William Septimus Piesse |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | Lindsay & Blakiston, 1867 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 24 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 389 pages |
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