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... considered unrivalled ; but this is a quality which would seem to place them in the train of other nations , rather than as taking the lead in discovery and civilization . The first introduction of Indian luxuries to the knowledge of ...
... considered unrivalled ; but this is a quality which would seem to place them in the train of other nations , rather than as taking the lead in discovery and civilization . The first introduction of Indian luxuries to the knowledge of ...
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... considered the labor of queens . They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transplant the short - lived insect , but that in the eggs a numerous progeny might be preserved , and multiplied in a distant climate . " * They ...
... considered the labor of queens . They soon discovered that it was impracticable to transplant the short - lived insect , but that in the eggs a numerous progeny might be preserved , and multiplied in a distant climate . " * They ...
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... considered worthy of being made a regal gift . It appears that in the year 790 the emperor Charlemagne sent two silken vests to Offa king of Mercia . It was fortunate for the European admirers of silken gar- ments that they were thus ...
... considered worthy of being made a regal gift . It appears that in the year 790 the emperor Charlemagne sent two silken vests to Offa king of Mercia . It was fortunate for the European admirers of silken gar- ments that they were thus ...
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... considered advisable to aug- ment the revenue derived from the silk trade in Modena , or otherwise this branch of industry was found to be on the de- cline . At that time the magistrates passed a law , obliging every proprietor of an ...
... considered advisable to aug- ment the revenue derived from the silk trade in Modena , or otherwise this branch of industry was found to be on the de- cline . At that time the magistrates passed a law , obliging every proprietor of an ...
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... considered it politic to establish these nurseries , with the idea that in the then unsettled state of Europe , emigrants from the silk countries might be al- lured to a place where provision was already made for ena- bling them to ...
... considered it politic to establish these nurseries , with the idea that in the then unsettled state of Europe , emigrants from the silk countries might be al- lured to a place where provision was already made for ena- bling them to ...
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Page 187 - The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations...
Page 210 - Happening to be at Matlock in the summer of 1784, I fell in company with some gentlemen of Manchester, when the conversation turned on Arkwright's spinning machinery. One of the company observed, that as soon as Arkwright's patent expired so many mills would be erected, and so much cotton spun, that hands never could be found to weave it.
Page 211 - This brought on a conversation on the subject, in which the Manchester gentlemen unanimously agreed that the thing was impracticable; and, in defence of their opinion, they adduced arguments which. I certainly was incompetent to answer, or even to comprehend, being totally ignorant of the subject, having never at that time seen a person weave.
Page 211 - The warp was placed perpendicularly, the reed fell with a force of at least half an hundred- weight, and the springs which threw the shuttle were strong enough to have thrown a congreve rocket. In short it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time.
Page 211 - ... be little difficulty in producing and repeating them. Full of these ideas, I immediately employed a carpenter and smith to carry them into effect. As soon as the machine was finished, I got a weaver to put in the warp, which was of such materials as sailcloth is usually made of. To my great delight, a piece of cloth, such as it was, was the produce.
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Page 17 - Amidst their pious occupations, they viewed with a curious eye the common dress of the Chinese, the manufactures of silk, and the myriads of silk-worms, whose education (either on trees or in houses) had once been considered as the labour of queens.
Page 211 - Congreve rocket. In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short time. Conceiving, in my great simplicity, that I had accomplished all that was required, I then secured what I thought a most valuable property, by a patent, 4th April, 1785.
Page 89 - One author thus writes:—"There is scarcely any thing among the various wonders which the animal creation affords, more admirable than the variety of changes which the silk-worm undergoes; but the curious texture of that silken covering with which it surrounds itself, when it arrives at the perfection of its animal life, vastly surpasses what is made by other animals of this class. All the caterpillar kind do indeed undergo changes like those of the silk-worm, and the beauty of...