Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures1836 - 448 sider |
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... thousands are disappearing by the only species of industry for which they have an adaptation , that of destroying each other . The inhabitants of New England , barren and rugged as she is , comparing her with this picture , and ...
... thousands are disappearing by the only species of industry for which they have an adaptation , that of destroying each other . The inhabitants of New England , barren and rugged as she is , comparing her with this picture , and ...
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... Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three Sealed and delivered being first duly Stamped in the presence of Luper See . Williams Samuel Slater Scal Jed Struth . Seal his playmates , his schoolmaster , Jackson , who was. Five Pence Pr . Pair.
... Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty Three Sealed and delivered being first duly Stamped in the presence of Luper See . Williams Samuel Slater Scal Jed Struth . Seal his playmates , his schoolmaster , Jackson , who was. Five Pence Pr . Pair.
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... thousand dollars . He did not touch this property when he left home , but probably reserved it for a retreat in case of failure of his object in coming to the United States . He had always that kind of generalship which provides for a ...
... thousand dollars . He did not touch this property when he left home , but probably reserved it for a retreat in case of failure of his object in coming to the United States . He had always that kind of generalship which provides for a ...
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... thousand pounds of yarn on hand , notwithstand- ing every exertion was used to weave it up and sell it . " Early in the year 1793 , Almy , Brown and Slater built a small factory in that village , ( known and called to this day the old ...
... thousand pounds of yarn on hand , notwithstand- ing every exertion was used to weave it up and sell it . " Early in the year 1793 , Almy , Brown and Slater built a small factory in that village , ( known and called to this day the old ...
Side 56
... thousand pounds , to be raised in a lottery : ' on condition that they give bonds that the money be actually ap- propriated in such a way as will most effectually promote the ' manufacturing ' of cotton piece goods , in this ...
... thousand pounds , to be raised in a lottery : ' on condition that they give bonds that the money be actually ap- propriated in such a way as will most effectually promote the ' manufacturing ' of cotton piece goods , in this ...
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Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures George Savage White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures George Savage White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures George Savage White Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1836 |
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Side 274 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislatures and magistrates, in all future periods of this commonwealth, to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences, and all seminaries of them;...
Side 176 - In testimony whereof, I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the Department of the Interior of the United States to be hereunto affixed.
Side 140 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis' Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the South...
Side 140 - And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? Pass by the other parts, and look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery.
Side 274 - Cambridge, public schools and grammar schools in the towns; to encourage private societies and public institutions, rewards and immunities, for the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufacture and a natural history of the country...
Side 141 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil.
Side 29 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble...
Side 195 - We have experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations: that to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist.
Side 176 - President of the United States of America, to all who shall see these Presents, Greeting: KNOW YE, That reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity...
Side 239 - As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.