Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American ManufacturesGales & Seaton, 1836 - 448 sider |
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Side 23
... quantity of our cotton cloths are sold at a very low price , and are consumed in all parts of the Union , both plain and printed ; as well as large exportations to South America , where they are in high repute , and have driven the ...
... quantity of our cotton cloths are sold at a very low price , and are consumed in all parts of the Union , both plain and printed ; as well as large exportations to South America , where they are in high repute , and have driven the ...
Side 45
... quantity of calicoes had been made , it was discovered that they were subject to double the duty ( six - pence per yd . ) on cottons with linen warp , and when printed , were prohibited . They had , therefore , no other resource than to ...
... quantity of calicoes had been made , it was discovered that they were subject to double the duty ( six - pence per yd . ) on cottons with linen warp , and when printed , were prohibited . They had , therefore , no other resource than to ...
Side 58
... quantity of flax , and employed between two and three hundred women in spinning linen yarn during the winter and spring , and also engaged workmen to make general court to exhibit them , and to give all information and explanation in ...
... quantity of flax , and employed between two and three hundred women in spinning linen yarn during the winter and spring , and also engaged workmen to make general court to exhibit them , and to give all information and explanation in ...
Side 60
... quantity being printed which was intended . " The committee have now laid before you a statement of their proceedings , and might adduce many arguments to prove the propriety , and indeed the necessity , of giving every encourage- mnent ...
... quantity being printed which was intended . " The committee have now laid before you a statement of their proceedings , and might adduce many arguments to prove the propriety , and indeed the necessity , of giving every encourage- mnent ...
Side 65
... quantity of yarn your mills spin in a day on one spindle . What number of spindles a lad can , or does attend , and at what age ? How your roping is made , what fineness , whether twist- ed harder or softer than for jennies ? Whether ...
... quantity of yarn your mills spin in a day on one spindle . What number of spindles a lad can , or does attend , and at what age ? How your roping is made , what fineness , whether twist- ed harder or softer than for jennies ? Whether ...
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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.