Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American ManufacturesGales & Seaton, 1836 - 448 oldal |
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19. oldal
... hundred ; -tobacco and indigo one penny , and cotton wool a half - penny , per pound . The colonists deemed these acts highly injurious to their interests . They were deprived of the privilege of seeking the best market for their pro ...
... hundred ; -tobacco and indigo one penny , and cotton wool a half - penny , per pound . The colonists deemed these acts highly injurious to their interests . They were deprived of the privilege of seeking the best market for their pro ...
20. oldal
... hundred pounds . Every such mill , engine , or plating forge , was declared a common naisance ; and the governors of the colonies , on the in- formation of two witnesses , on oath , were directed to cause the same to be removed within ...
... hundred pounds . Every such mill , engine , or plating forge , was declared a common naisance ; and the governors of the colonies , on the in- formation of two witnesses , on oath , were directed to cause the same to be removed within ...
53. oldal
... hundreds of flourishing villages which now consti- tute the most prosperous communities in this commonwealth ? How small and feeble was the beginning of all this ! In 1787 , the first cotton mill in this state was got up in Beverly , by ...
... hundreds of flourishing villages which now consti- tute the most prosperous communities in this commonwealth ? How small and feeble was the beginning of all this ! In 1787 , the first cotton mill in this state was got up in Beverly , by ...
54. oldal
... hundred dollars , and which can now be purchased for two hundred dollars . The extraordinary loss of materials in the instruction of their servants and workmen , while so many are new , and the additional losses sustained by the ...
... hundred dollars , and which can now be purchased for two hundred dollars . The extraordinary loss of materials in the instruction of their servants and workmen , while so many are new , and the additional losses sustained by the ...
58. oldal
... 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 his power respecting them . It is believed that the ...
... 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 his power respecting them . It is believed that the ...
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280. oldal - 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;...
144. oldal - 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's 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.
182. oldal - 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.
29. oldal - 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...
280. oldal - 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...
145. oldal - 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.
201. oldal - 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.
182. oldal - 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...
60. oldal - The embarrassments which have obstructed the progress of our external trade have led to serious reflections on the necessity of enlarging the sphere of our domestic commerce. The restrictive regulations which, in foreign markets, abridge the vent of the increasing surplus of our agricultural produce, serve to beget an earnest desire that a more extensive demand for that surplus may be created at home...
245. oldal - 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.