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And though no picture you can trace, The frame contains that chymic sage; Apply but warmth, you 're face to face.

CHYMICAL

NATURAL AND PHYSICAL

MAGIC

INTENDED FOR THE

INSTRUCTION AND ENTERTAINMENT OF JUVENILES

DURING

THE HOLIDAY VACATION.

BY

G. W. SEPTIMUS PIESSE

ANALYTICAL CHYMIST

AUTHOR OF THE ART OF PERFUMERY' THE LABORATORY'
" YOUNG FARMER'S SCIENCE' ETC. ETC.

RECREATION is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe-to
sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He,
therefore, that spends his whole time in recreation is ever whetting, never
mowing; his grass may grow and his steed may starve: as, contrarily, he
that always toils and never recreates, is ever mowing, never whetting; labouring
much to little purpose.

BISHOP HALL.

LONDON

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, & ROBERTS.

1858

268. c. 287.293,