The Origins of Invention: A Study of Industry Among Primitive PeoplesW. Scott, 1895 - 419 pagine |
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Pagina 77 - So doth the potter sitting at his work, And turning the wheel about with his feet, Who is always carefully set at his work, And maketh all his work by number; He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace...
Pagina 222 - Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Pagina 256 - I have given you lands to hunt in, I have given you streams to fish in, I have given you bear and bison, I have given you roe and reindeer, I have given you brant and beaver, Filled the marshes full of wild-fowl, Filled the rivers full of fishes: Why then are you not contented?
Pagina 62 - A large buffalo skin is so attached to cords that, when let down into the well, it opens and is instantly filled, and, being drawn up, it closes so as to retain the water. The rope by which it is hoisted to the top works over a wheel, and is drawn by oxen, mules, or camels, that walk directly from the well to the length of the rope, and then return, only to repeat the operation until a sufficient quantity of water is raised.
Pagina 118 - Formerly the ancient kings' had no houses. In winter they lived in caves which they had excavated, and in summer in nests which they had framed. They knew not yet the transforming power of fire, but ate the fruits of plants and trees, and the flesh of birds and beasts, drinking their blood, and swallowing (also) the hair and feathers.
Pagina 235 - The second element is prepared from the same plants. A squaw selects a fresh shoot, breaks off the too slender upper portion, and bites one end so that it starts to split into three nearly equal parts. Holding one of these parts in her teeth and one in either hand, she pulls them apart, guiding the split with her fingers so dexterously that the whole shoot is divided into three equal even portions.
Pagina 211 - ... as far as it must be hollowed out. Then they put fire to those dry branches, and as soon as they were burnt they were replaced by others. While these branches were burning the Indians were very busy with wet rags and pouring water upon the tree to prevent the fire from spreading too far.
Pagina 207 - ... calabashes and gourds. Almost all tropical countries produce bamboos, and wherever they are found in abundance, the natives apply them to a variety of uses. Their strength, lightness, smoothness, straightness, roundness, and hollow'ness, the facility and regularity with which they can be split, their many different sizes, the varying length of their joints, the ease with which they can be cut and with which holes can be made through them, their hardness outside, their freedom from any pronounced...
Pagina 182 - The rural honours, and increase the year; You, who supply the ground with seeds of grain ; And you, who swell those seeds with kindly rain ; And chiefly thou, whose undetermined state Is yet the business of the gods...
Pagina 71 - Although the native canoe-builders in the Louisiade Archipelago work with adzes made of hoop-iron, the payment for their work is made, in stone axes, ten to fifty of these being the price of a canoe. The stone axe is still the accepted medium of exchange in large transactions — pigs, for instance, and wives are valued in that currency. It is only fair, by the way, to mention that the purchase of a wife is stated by the natives not to be such in the ordinary sense; the articles paid are, they say,...