Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures Connected with a History of the Rise and Progress of the Cotton Manufacture in England and America, with Remarks on the Moral Influence of Manufactories in the United Statespublisher not given, 1836 - 448 sider |
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Side 60
... coloured , and knitting thread ; since the first of August , also , a hundred and ninety yards of cottons have been printed ; and it may be observed , that the want of proper bleach - yards , and the difficulty of procuring persons well ...
... coloured , and knitting thread ; since the first of August , also , a hundred and ninety yards of cottons have been printed ; and it may be observed , that the want of proper bleach - yards , and the difficulty of procuring persons well ...
Side 104
... colours . I fear , my friend , this will be the case , and that harmony which exists between this country and you will be suspended , perhaps to the inconvenience of both . It is rumoured that Turkey is arming against Russia , but of ...
... colours . I fear , my friend , this will be the case , and that harmony which exists between this country and you will be suspended , perhaps to the inconvenience of both . It is rumoured that Turkey is arming against Russia , but of ...
Side 217
... coloured goods they had on hand . If you can purchase one or two tons of good English copperas at $ 2,75 or nearly that , you will forward it . April 27 , 1818. - A Providence friend of mine showed me a letter to day which he had ...
... coloured goods they had on hand . If you can purchase one or two tons of good English copperas at $ 2,75 or nearly that , you will forward it . April 27 , 1818. - A Providence friend of mine showed me a letter to day which he had ...
Side 251
... coloured , man wants to live with us . This looks a little like what I have often told you , that there are people to be got for money . A certain hook which has been baited with shiners , for some time past , will not induce a certain ...
... coloured , man wants to live with us . This looks a little like what I have often told you , that there are people to be got for money . A certain hook which has been baited with shiners , for some time past , will not induce a certain ...
Side 341
... colours of the painted machinery , the perpetual din of which scarcely allows the spectator to muse upon the change that has taken place since the period when the silence that reigned within these walls was only broken by the chant of ...
... colours of the painted machinery , the perpetual din of which scarcely allows the spectator to muse upon the change that has taken place since the period when the silence that reigned within these walls was only broken by the chant of ...
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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 245 - 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.