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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... four years and five months . He was taken sick with a severe cold , on Jan. 23d ; the next day he had a bad cough , but was playful , and anxious to ride about four miles , to see one of my particular acquaintances . Therefore , to ...
... four years and five months . He was taken sick with a severe cold , on Jan. 23d ; the next day he had a bad cough , but was playful , and anxious to ride about four miles , to see one of my particular acquaintances . Therefore , to ...
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... Four - pence Stamp . £ 2 2s . I promise to pay to Samuel Slater , or order , upon demand , the sum of two pounds two shillings , for value received , with lawful interest for the same , as witness my hand this tenth day of January ...
... Four - pence Stamp . £ 2 2s . I promise to pay to Samuel Slater , or order , upon demand , the sum of two pounds two shillings , for value received , with lawful interest for the same , as witness my hand this tenth day of January ...
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... four or five of the late years , his time was solely devoted to the factory as general overseer , both as respected making machinery and the manufacturing department . On the 1st day of September 1789 , he took his departure from ...
... four or five of the late years , his time was solely devoted to the factory as general overseer , both as respected making machinery and the manufacturing department . On the 1st day of September 1789 , he took his departure from ...
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... four preceding years were constantly offered for sale at prices lower than their cost in Europe , and less than they could be made for in America . From a deep sense of these inconveniences , exertions were commenced in various parts of ...
... four preceding years were constantly offered for sale at prices lower than their cost in Europe , and less than they could be made for in America . From a deep sense of these inconveniences , exertions were commenced in various parts of ...
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... first muskets ever made in America were made by Mr. Orr . Also the first nails made by machinery were manufactured at Bridge- Massachusetts . water , a carding engine , and four jennies , of forty 58 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL SLATER .
... first muskets ever made in America were made by Mr. Orr . Also the first nails made by machinery were manufactured at Bridge- Massachusetts . water , a carding engine , and four jennies , of forty 58 MEMOIR OF SAMUEL SLATER .
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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.