Memoir of Samuel Slater: The Father of American Manufactures |
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... mechanical industry of the nation . The clergyman finds ranged among the beauties of na- ture , the most intelligible and striking proofs of God's wisdom and goodness - the sailor in his ship has to deal with one of the most admirable ...
... mechanical industry of the nation . The clergyman finds ranged among the beauties of na- ture , the most intelligible and striking proofs of God's wisdom and goodness - the sailor in his ship has to deal with one of the most admirable ...
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... mechanical genius , whose power and useful- ness have stimulated our curiosity to mark its changes , and to trace its origin . And the same feeling of reverential gratitude , which attached holiness to the spots whence mighty rivers ...
... mechanical genius , whose power and useful- ness have stimulated our curiosity to mark its changes , and to trace its origin . And the same feeling of reverential gratitude , which attached holiness to the spots whence mighty rivers ...
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... mechanical operations and improvements . Through the influence of fashion , as well as by other means , they have rendered their various dependencies entirely subservient to the mother country ; affording them a constant supply , not ...
... mechanical operations and improvements . Through the influence of fashion , as well as by other means , they have rendered their various dependencies entirely subservient to the mother country ; affording them a constant supply , not ...
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... mechanical improvements in the art of spinning have an importance which it is difficult to over - estimate . By the Greeks , their authors would have been thought worthy of deifica- tion ; nor will the enlightened judgment of moderns ...
... mechanical improvements in the art of spinning have an importance which it is difficult to over - estimate . By the Greeks , their authors would have been thought worthy of deifica- tion ; nor will the enlightened judgment of moderns ...
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... mechanical genius . He himself entertain- ed this opinion ; but he was afraid the cotton spinning would be overdone in England , and listened to the overtures held out from the United States ; we shall see how far his footsteps were ...
... mechanical genius . He himself entertain- ed this opinion ; but he was afraid the cotton spinning would be overdone in England , and listened to the overtures held out from the United States ; we shall see how far his footsteps were ...
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Page 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;...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 110 - It is, therefore, of necessity, left to the discretion of the National Legislature to pronounce upon the objects which concern the general welfare, and for which, under that description, an appropriation of money is requisite and proper. And there seems to be no room for a doubt that whatever concerns the general interests of learning, of agriculture, of manufactures, and of commerce are within the sphere of the national councils, as far as regards an application of money.