The Sanitary Reporter: A Weekly Record Relating to Gas, Water, Sewerage, and Social and General Science, Tema 186431863 |
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Página 277 - With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment, whose effect Holds such an enmity with blood of man That swift as quicksilver it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body, And with a sudden vigour it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood.
Página 27 - And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Página 277 - Sleeping within mine orchard, My custom always of the afternoon, Upon my secure hour thy uncle stole, With juice of cursed hebenon in a vial, And in the porches of mine ears did pour The leperous distilment...
Página 243 - ... diseased, or unsound, or unwholesome, or unfit for the food of man, he may seize and carry away the same himself or b; an assistant, in order to have the same dealt with by a justice.
Página 184 - King George the Third, intituled "An Act for better paving, improving, and regulating the streets of the " Metropolis, and removing and preventing nuisances and obstructions therein...
Página 277 - It is acrid and disagreeable to the taste, narcotic and poisonous. One drop applied to the tongue of a cat brought on convulsions, and in two minutes occasioned death. The Hottentots are said to kill snakes by putting a drop of it on their tongues. Under its influence the reptiles die as instantaneously as if killed by an electric shock. It appears to act nearly in the same way as prussic acid.
Página 27 - This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper water-course of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David.
Página 185 - Majesty, intituled An act to compel clerks of the peace for counties and other persons to take the custody of such documents as shall be directed to be deposited with them under the standing orders of either House of Parliament.
Página 184 - ... whose control or management the same may be, or to their clerk, surveyor, or other officer, notice in writing of their intention to open or break up the same, not less than three clear days before beginning such work, except in cases of emergency arising from defects in any of the pipes or other works, and then so soon as is possible after the beginning of the work, or the necessity for the same shall have arisen.
Página 200 - Secondly, having from the undertakers a supply of water for any other than domestic purposes, uses, for any purposes other than those for which he is entitled to use the same, any water supplied to him by the undertakers...