The chemistry of common life |
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AIR WE BREATHE albumen America animal astringent atmosphere bean become BEEF WE COOK BEVERAGES WE INFUSE bitter black teas BLACKWOOD BREAD WE EAT caffeine carbonic acid cent cheese chemical CHEMISTRY OF COMMON chicory chiefly China Chinese tea cocoa coffee colour composition consists consumption contains digestion dried effects flavour flesh fruit GEORGE HENRY LEWES gluten grain green heat Hence hydrogen inch ingredients juice kind leaf leaves less lime maté meat milk mixed Monthly Numbers musculine natural nearly nitrogen nutritious oxygen palmitine Paraguay Paraguay tea peculiar PLANT WE REAR portion potato pounds prepared produced properties proportion Prussian blue quantity quinoa rain roasted rocks salt sandy seeds SOIL WE CULTIVATE starch substances sugar surface SWEETS WE EXTRACT tannic tannic acid taste tea and coffee TEETOTUM theine theobromine tion tree varieties vegetable food volatile oil watery vapour weight wheat wheaten bread whole yeast yield
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الصفحة 42 - And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet...
الصفحة 42 - So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.
الصفحة 192 - It has been the object of the author in this work to exhibit the present condition of chemical knowledge, and of matured scientific opinion, upon the subjects to which it is devoted. The reader will not be surprised, therefore, should he find in it some things which differ from what is to be found in other popular works already in his hands or on the shelves of his library.
الصفحة 144 - THE common life of man is full of wonders, Chemical and Physiological. Most of us pass through this life without seeing or being sensible of them, though every day our existence and our comforts ought to recall them to our minds. One main cause of this is, that our schools tell us nothing about them — do not teach those parts of modern learning which would fit us for seeing them. What most concerns the things that daily occupy our attention and cares, are in early life almost sedulously kept from...
الصفحة 151 - In Central America, the Indian of native blood, and the Creole of mixed European race, indulge alike in their ancient chocolate. In Southern America the tea of Paraguay is an almost universal beverage. The native North American tribes have their Appalachian tea, their Oswego tea, their Labrador tea, and many others. From Florida to Georgia in the United States, and over all the West India Islands, the...
الصفحة 240 - We have carefully read this truly satisfactory book, and do not hesitate to say that it is an excellent compendium of the great facts of Geology, and written in a truthful and philosophic spirit."— Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.
الصفحة 161 - that a pious hermit, who, in his watchings and prayers, had often been overtaken by sleep, so that his eyelids closed, in holy wrath against the weakness of the flesh, cut them off and threw them on the ground. But a god caused a tea-shrub to spring out of them, the leaves of which exhibit the form of an eyelid bordered with lashes, and possess the gift of hindering sleep.
الصفحة 117 - It is largely cultivated at home, and is imported, to the extent of seven or eight hundred tons a-year, from Spain and Portugal. But it rises in importance when we consider that in these latter countries it forms one of the common and universal supports of life. It is interesting, therefore, to know that in addition to the peculiar flavour which first recommends it, the onion is remarkably nutritious. According to my analyses, the dried onion root contains from twenty-five to thirty per cent of gluten-...
الصفحة 240 - It has not been our good fortune to examine a text-book on science of which we could express an opinion so entirely favourable as we are enabled to do of Mr Page's little work."— Athenceum., ADVANCED TEXT-BOOK OF GEOLOGY, DESCRIPTIVE AND INDUSTRIAL.
الصفحة 42 - And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.