The Arts of Life ... Described in a series of letters ... By the author of Evenings at Home. The second edition. The first letter signed: J. A., i.e. John Aikin, M.D.Longman & Company, 1858 - 228 pages |
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afford ancient animals annual plant articles of food astringent bark barley boiling bread called caterpillar civilised climates cocoon colour contrivance cookery corn cotton covering crops cultivated DEAR BOY degree diet domestic dress earth Egypt employed Europe fabrics farinaceous fermented fibres fire fish flax flesh garden ginally grain grass ground grow habitation hair heat Hemp Herodotus hide human India Indian invention island juice kind labour land leather LETTER linen liquor luxury malt manufacture manure matter meal means milk mortar mucilage mucilaginous native nature nourishing operation organzine palate plants practised principal procured purpose quadrupeds quantity rendered rich Romans roof roots salt Sarmatians savage scarcely seeds sheep shelter silk silkworm skin soft soil South America species stomach stone substance sugar supply sweet taste thick thread trees tremely tribes twisted various vast vated vegetables walls warm wild wool yield