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 páginas |
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... do so with my succeeding volumes , whatever distinguished indi- vidual may be occupying that high station . I have the honour to be with much respect , Your obedient servant , THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . In want of facts , it appears to.
... do so with my succeeding volumes , whatever distinguished indi- vidual may be occupying that high station . I have the honour to be with much respect , Your obedient servant , THE AUTHOR . PREFACE . In want of facts , it appears to.
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... 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 States George Savage White. • PREFACE . In want of facts , it appears to.
... 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 States George Savage White. • PREFACE . In want of facts , it appears to.
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... appears to have been a common propensity of our race to resort to fiction . The ancients , thus influenced , were prone to recur to fabulous ancestry , and to attribute all their improvements and inventions to deified powers . So ...
... appears to have been a common propensity of our race to resort to fiction . The ancients , thus influenced , were prone to recur to fabulous ancestry , and to attribute all their improvements and inventions to deified powers . So ...
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... appears pleasing and easy to be understood . The subject is not so inexplicable as many imagine . Arnott says : " The laws of physics have an influence so extensive , that it need not excite surprise that all classes of society are at ...
... appears pleasing and easy to be understood . The subject is not so inexplicable as many imagine . Arnott says : " The laws of physics have an influence so extensive , that it need not excite surprise that all classes of society are at ...
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... appears trickling from the rock , or oozing from among the flowers of the valley . So also , in developing the rise ... appear to have conferred but slight claim to the reverence in which their authors were held in ancient times , yet ...
... appears trickling from the rock , or oozing from among the flowers of the valley . So also , in developing the rise ... appear to have conferred but slight claim to the reverence in which their authors were held in ancient times , yet ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 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;...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.