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 States |
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... considered it little short of presumption , for one , whose studies have been so devoted to another department , to attempt mechanics . I have been led into the subject gradually and accidentally ; at first I only intended a memoir of ...
... considered it little short of presumption , for one , whose studies have been so devoted to another department , to attempt mechanics . I have been led into the subject gradually and accidentally ; at first I only intended a memoir of ...
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... considered by some as a violation of their charter rights ; in Massachusetts they were , for a long time , totally disregarded . The other colonies viewed them in the same light . Virginia presented a petition for their re- peal ; and ...
... considered by some as a violation of their charter rights ; in Massachusetts they were , for a long time , totally disregarded . The other colonies viewed them in the same light . Virginia presented a petition for their re- peal ; and ...
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... considered it a per- manent business . Mr. Strutt replied , " It is not probable , Samuel , and perfect peace for ever . And we thereby are deprived of one of our brightest earthly gems , the glittering of which , time will never efface ...
... considered it a per- manent business . Mr. Strutt replied , " It is not probable , Samuel , and perfect peace for ever . And we thereby are deprived of one of our brightest earthly gems , the glittering of which , time will never efface ...
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... considered that during this entire period he was afflicted with a violent asthma , which was always extremely oppressive , and threatened sometimes to put an immediate termi- nation to his existence , his great exertions must excite ...
... considered that during this entire period he was afflicted with a violent asthma , which was always extremely oppressive , and threatened sometimes to put an immediate termi- nation to his existence , his great exertions must excite ...
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... considered the era of their national commencement . It was in this year that the legislature of Massachusetts resolved more effectually to aid the Beverly company . * About the same time , Jan. 15th , 1790 , the house of representatives ...
... considered the era of their national commencement . It was in this year that the legislature of Massachusetts resolved more effectually to aid the Beverly company . * About the same time , Jan. 15th , 1790 , the house of representatives ...
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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 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.