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... heading , a series of questions will be found at the end numbered to correspond to that of the paragraphs containing the answer . This will enable the student to determine for himself the correctness of his own answer . As many persons ...
... heading , a series of questions will be found at the end numbered to correspond to that of the paragraphs containing the answer . This will enable the student to determine for himself the correctness of his own answer . As many persons ...
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... heading will permit its use as a text book in such schools . It makes no claim to be able to lead the student along ... headings , and if the reader will care to inform himself more fully in regard to any of these , he can readily do so ...
... heading will permit its use as a text book in such schools . It makes no claim to be able to lead the student along ... headings , and if the reader will care to inform himself more fully in regard to any of these , he can readily do so ...
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... hangers ' trades which follows in the course of this heading , precedence is given to the larger , which will be reviewed first and downward to the smaller ones and this will be the case for $ 22 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
... hangers ' trades which follows in the course of this heading , precedence is given to the larger , which will be reviewed first and downward to the smaller ones and this will be the case for $ 22 Modern Painter's Cyclopedia.
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... headings other than a reference to the figures and their number , thus showing at a glance the particular tools each branch requires . It will be in order here to state that the manufactur- ing of brushes has progressed along and kept ...
... headings other than a reference to the figures and their number , thus showing at a glance the particular tools each branch requires . It will be in order here to state that the manufactur- ing of brushes has progressed along and kept ...
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... headings where water colors are employed in the more artistic branches of dis- temper work . 33. a . The material ... heading of color mixing ( see para- graphs 61 to 84 ) full directions are given for making them . It will be useless ...
... headings where water colors are employed in the more artistic branches of dis- temper work . 33. a . The material ... heading of color mixing ( see para- graphs 61 to 84 ) full directions are given for making them . It will be useless ...
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Page 393 - It certainly is not in good taste to stain woods in colors which do not belong to them, as blues, greens, etc., and while this is a free country, etc., as long as a person is not sent to the penitentiary for committing outrages against nature, nor to insane asylums, it is very probable that the practice will go on undisturbed. But it is vulgarity, to say the least of the practice, and painters should not encourage it.
Page 63 - With all the cheap John sort of plastering that is being done by contractors at a price which would mean a sure loss to them if they used good material, but which must be done so as to make a profit anyhow, many of the surfaces the calciminer has to 'deal with will be found very porous and absorbing...
Page 448 - ... surface. The crepe paper, cheese cloth and burlap also produce fine, simple patterns but slightly different from each other. The heavy muslin when crumpled up into a wad gives an especially pleasing pattern resembling the figure of Spanish leather when done in the burnt umber or Van Dyke brown ovef a ground coat of ivory.
Page 63 - An ideal wall to work upon is one that will be sufficiently hard to have but little suction, nearly but not quite non-absorbent. The patent plastered walls left either in a...