Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American ManufacturesGales & Seaton, 1836 - 448 sider |
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... never be off her watch - tower - for the enemy is ever on the alert , making a breach at every weak point , and taking advantage of our inadvertence and inactivity . But if Americans make good use of their natural capabilities , and ...
... never be off her watch - tower - for the enemy is ever on the alert , making a breach at every weak point , and taking advantage of our inadvertence and inactivity . But if Americans make good use of their natural capabilities , and ...
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... never should have reaped the wonderful harvest of benefits , from their disinterested labours , that we now enjoy . It is by constant self - denial and unconquered perseverance , that we can obtain any great object : we shall reap if we ...
... never should have reaped the wonderful harvest of benefits , from their disinterested labours , that we now enjoy . It is by constant self - denial and unconquered perseverance , that we can obtain any great object : we shall reap if we ...
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... never went out of the house afterwards . In the evening he was very much troubled with a shrill cough , and rested but little during the night . On the 25th he still grew worse , and on the 26th , in the afternoon , we called for a ...
... never went out of the house afterwards . In the evening he was very much troubled with a shrill cough , and rested but little during the night . On the 25th he still grew worse , and on the 26th , in the afternoon , we called for a ...
Side 33
... never returned to his father's land . But he ever retained a strong affection and lively concern in the welfare of his native . country . As is usual , Samuel went on trial to Mr. Strutt , previous to his indenture of apprenticeship ...
... never returned to his father's land . But he ever retained a strong affection and lively concern in the welfare of his native . country . As is usual , Samuel went on trial to Mr. Strutt , previous to his indenture of apprenticeship ...
Side 35
... wife , by way of still impressing the subject on the mind of his favourite apprentice , ' that he was afraid that Samuel would never be rich . " " did on his first coming to America . But his MEMOIR OF SAMUEL SLATER . 35.
... wife , by way of still impressing the subject on the mind of his favourite apprentice , ' that he was afraid that Samuel would never be rich . " " did on his first coming to America . But his MEMOIR OF SAMUEL SLATER . 35.
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Side 280 - 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 182 - 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 144 - 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 144 - 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 280 - 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 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 145 - 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 201 - 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 182 - 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 110 - It is, therefore, of necessity, left to the discretion of the National Legislature to pronounce upon the objects which concern the general welfare, and for which, under that description, an appropriation of money is requisite and proper. And there seems to be no room for a doubt that whatever concerns the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures, and of commerce are within the sphere of the national councils, as far as regards an application of money.