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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... capital . America is already alive to those circumstances , but she must never be off her watch - tower - for the enemy is ever on the alert , making a breach at every weak point , and taking advantage of our inadvertence and inactivity ...
... capital . America is already alive to those circumstances , but she must never be off her watch - tower - for the enemy is ever on the alert , making a breach at every weak point , and taking advantage of our inadvertence and inactivity ...
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... capital , and who fail and defraud their creditors , during the time they ought to have been serving an apprenticeship . Such boys break their engagements , forfeit all confidence , and follow the example of Franklin , in that ...
... capital , and who fail and defraud their creditors , during the time they ought to have been serving an apprenticeship . Such boys break their engagements , forfeit all confidence , and follow the example of Franklin , in that ...
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... capital on a new establishment . Having at length , however , the good fortune to secure the co - operation of Mr. Smalley , of Preston , he obtained his first patent for spinning cotton by means of rollers ; but their property failing ...
... capital on a new establishment . Having at length , however , the good fortune to secure the co - operation of Mr. Smalley , of Preston , he obtained his first patent for spinning cotton by means of rollers ; but their property failing ...
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... capital and industry in domestic manufactures ? The petitioners for the little Beverly cotton mill were doubtless deemed to be absurdly extravagant , when they hinted that the manufac- ture of cottons would one day , not only afford a ...
... capital and industry in domestic manufactures ? The petitioners for the little Beverly cotton mill were doubtless deemed to be absurdly extravagant , when they hinted that the manufac- ture of cottons would one day , not only afford a ...
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... capital for public benefit , without unjust privileges ; in great projects . Here are the true uses of wealth , in a government like ours , and this great specific lies at the bottom of the philosophy of our political economy . Develope ...
... capital for public benefit , without unjust privileges ; in great projects . Here are the true uses of wealth , in a government like ours , and this great specific lies at the bottom of the philosophy of our political economy . Develope ...
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advantages Almy America appears Arkwright arts Belper bleaching calico capital carding cloth colour comb commenced cotton manufacture cotton mill cultivation cylinder diameter dollars employed employment encouragement England enterprise erected expense factory facturing favour feet foreign hand honour hundred important improvement increase industry interest invention Jedediah Strutt jenny John Slater labour land looms machine machinery manu manufac manufacturing establishments means mechanical ment minute moral Moses Brown nations operation patent Pawtucket perfect persons Philadelphia pounds present principles printing produce profit proprietors prosperity Providence pulleys quantity revolutions revolutions per minute Rhode Island river rollers Samuel Slater seed shaft silk society speed spindles spinning spinning frame staple steam engine Strutt supply teeth Tench Coxe thing thousand tion town trade twists per inch United village wages warp wealth wheel whole Wilkinson wool woollen yards yarn
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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.