Fortunes Made in Business: A Series of Original Sketches, Biographical and Anecdotic, from the Recent History of Industry and Commerce, Volume 1James Hogg S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1884 - 406 páginas |
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Página 180 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me: Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Página 282 - Absence of occupation is not rest, A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Página 285 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name...
Página 30 - Britain's isle resounds, To him whose goodness to the poor abounds. Long shall his name in British annals shine, And grateful ages offer at his shrine : By this our trade are thousands daily fed, By it supplied with means to earn their bread, In various forms our trade its work imparts, In different methods, and by different arts ; Preserves from starving indigents distress'd, As combers, spinners, weavers, and the rest.
Página 243 - Was my own lord. Then did I seek to rise Out of the prison of my mean estate; And, with such jewels as the exploring mind Brings from the caves of knowledge, buy my ransom From those twin gaolers of the daring heart — Low birth and iron fortune.
Página 30 - Shepherd and Shepherdess. Shepherd Swains. Woolsorters on horseback, with ornamented caps and various coloured slivers. Comb Makers. Charcoal Burners. Combers' Colours. Band. Woolcombers, with wool wigs, &c. Band. Dyers, with red cockades, blue aprons, and crossed slivers of red and blue. The following- were the numbers of the different bodies, as nearly as could be estimated : — 24 woolstaplws, 38 spinners and manufacturers, 6 merchants, 56 apprentices and masters' sons, 160 woolsorters, 30 combmaJcers,...
Página 431 - are every morning wet by the tears of innocent victims at the accursed shrine of avarice, who are compelled, not by the cart-whip of the negro slave-driver, but by the dread of the equally appalling thong or strap of the overlooker, to hasten, half-dressed, but not half-fed, to those magazines of British infantile slavery—the worsted-mills in the town and neighbourhood of Bradford...
Página 302 - of dirty-looking sacks filled with some fibrous material which bore a strong resemblance to superannuated horsehair or frowsy elongated wool or anything else unpleasant and unattractive, was landed in Liverpool. When these queer-looking bales had first arrived, or by what vessel brought, or for what purpose intended, the very oldest warehouseman in Liverpool docks couldn't say. There had once been a rumour — a mere warehouseman's whisper — that the bales had been shipped from South America on...
Página 72 - ... Sicilians not only bred the silk-worms, but spun and weaved the silk. The manufacture spread into Italy and Spain, and also into the south of France, a little before the reign of Francis I-, about 1510 ; and Henry IV. propagated mulberry trees and silk-worms throughout the kingdom, 1589. In England, silk mantles were worn by some noblemen's ladies at a ball at Kenilworth Castle, Í286.
Página 446 - The town of Manchester buys cotton wool from London that comes from Cyprus and Smyrna, and works the same into fustians, vermilions, and dimities.