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Page 115 - Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Page 49 - To make ink, cut for yourself wood of the thorn-trees in April or May, before they produce flowers or leaves, and collecting them in small bundles, allow them to lie in the shade for two, three, or four weeks, until they are somewhat dry. Then have wooden mallets, with which you beat these thorns upon another piece of hard wood, until you peel off the bark everywhere, put which immediately into a barrelful of water. When you have filled two, or three, or four, or five barrels with bark and water,...
Page 434 - Namen des eben so blaßgelben Bernsteins bekam? Die Ausleger behaupten: das letztere. Denn, sagen sie, auch von diesem Elektrum gab es zweierlei Sorten, eine natürliche und eine nachgemachte. Sie berufen sich deshalb auf das Zeugnis des Plinius, gegen welches nichts einzuwenden ist*. Omni auro inest argentum vario pondere. — Ubicunque quinta argenti portio est, electrum vocatur.
Page 49 - ... all the sap of the bark. Afterwards put this water into a very clean pan, or into a cauldron, and fire being placed under it, boil it ; from time to time, also, throw into the pan some of this bark, so that whatever sap may remain in it may be boiled out, when you have cooked it a little, throw it out, and again put in more ; which done, boil down the remaining water unto a third part, and then, pouring it out of this pan, put it into one smaller, and cook it until it grows black and begins to...
Page 317 - When you have scraped the gold from silver, place this scraping in a small cup in which gold or silver is accustomed to be melted, and press a small linen cloth upon it, that nothing may by chance be abstracted from it by the wind of the bellows, and placing it before the furnace, melt it; and directly lay fragments of sulphur in it, according to the quantity of the scraping, and carefully stir it with a thin piece of charcoal until its fumes cease; and immediately pour it into an iron mould. Then...
Page 24 - Si autem volueris ostia rubricare, tolle oleum lini, quod hoc modo compones. Accipe semen lini et exsicca illud in sartagine super ignem sine aqua. Deinde mitte in mortarium et contunde illud pila donee tenuissimus pulvis fiat, rursusque mittens illud in sartaginem, et infundens modicum aquae, sic calefacies fortiter.
Page 202 - Fili, non cuncteris, sed plena fide crede, spiritum Dei cor tuum implesse, cum ejus ornasti domum tanto decore, tantaque operum varietate; et ne forte diffidas...