 | 1837 - 612 דפים
...and below, for, as Hamlet's grave-digger has it, 'your water is a sore decayer.' This is implied in the Devonshire adage, that ' all cob wants is a good hat and a good pair of shoes.' Instances occur of cob houses, built in the time of Elizabeth, being found at this day in perfect preservation.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 602 דפים
...and below, for, as Hainlet's grave-digger has it, ' your water is a sore decayer.' This is implied in the Devonshire adage, that ' all cob wants is a good hat and a good pair of shoes.1 Instances occur of cob houses, built in the time of Elizabeth, being found at this day in perfect... | |
 | 1845 - 300 דפים
...then well beaten and trodden together. This mixture is always hid upon a foundation of stoue work, as it is necessary to keep it dry, hence the Devonshire...separate layer should be allowed some weeks to settle, and it is then pared perpendicularly even, before another is added. When the successive layers form... | |
| |
Devonshire saying that all cob wants is a good hat and a good pair of shoes, that is, a stone foundation and a coping of thatch ... a usual protection for cob in the eighteenth century. 