A History of American Manufactures, from 1608 to 1860: Exhibiting ... Comprising Annals of the Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful Arts, with a Notice of the Important Inventions, Tariffs, and the Results of Each Decennial Census, Volumen 1Edward Young & Company, 1864 |
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... hundred and nineteen millions of dollars ; and the capital employed in them , exceeded five hundred and fifty millions of dollars . To attain this result from a state of great feebleness in little more than three- fourths of a century ...
... hundred and nineteen millions of dollars ; and the capital employed in them , exceeded five hundred and fifty millions of dollars . To attain this result from a state of great feebleness in little more than three- fourths of a century ...
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... hundred tons . In 1856 , it was reported at eight thousand seven hundred and forty - seven tons . The copper mines , he says , then lay wholly neglected , and were not reckoned in the value of land ; but Cornwall and Wales , at the time ...
... hundred tons . In 1856 , it was reported at eight thousand seven hundred and forty - seven tons . The copper mines , he says , then lay wholly neglected , and were not reckoned in the value of land ; but Cornwall and Wales , at the time ...
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... hundred years later before its use became general ; and country houses in Scotland were not glazed as late as 1661. Plate glass was first made in England by Venetian artists , at Lambeth , in 1673. The manufacture of silk was more than ...
... hundred years later before its use became general ; and country houses in Scotland were not glazed as late as 1661. Plate glass was first made in England by Venetian artists , at Lambeth , in 1673. The manufacture of silk was more than ...
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... hundred and fifty persons had been sent to set up three iron - works ; that directions had been given for making cordage , as well as hemp and flax , and more especially silk grass , which grew there naturally in great abundance , and ...
... hundred and fifty persons had been sent to set up three iron - works ; that directions had been given for making cordage , as well as hemp and flax , and more especially silk grass , which grew there naturally in great abundance , and ...
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... hundred men brought up to husbandry ; out of Warwickshire and Staffordshire above one hundred and ten ; and out of Sussex about forty , all framed to iron - workes , etc. " Among the natural commodities enumerated in the same Tract ...
... hundred men brought up to husbandry ; out of Warwickshire and Staffordshire above one hundred and ten ; and out of Sussex about forty , all framed to iron - workes , etc. " Among the natural commodities enumerated in the same Tract ...
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Página 139 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Página 116 - Forced from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main ; Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound...
Página 129 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Página 15 - ... to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
Página 537 - Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel in any of the said Colonies...
Página 277 - English woolen and other manufactures and commodities; rendering the navigation to and from them more safe and cheap ; and making this kingdom a staple not only of the commodities of the plantations, but also of the commodities of other countries and places for their supply; it being the usage of other nations to keep their plantation trade exclusively to themselves.
Página 357 - Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts...
Página 66 - ... or a barrel of corn to any place in Europe out of the king's dominions. If this were for his majesty's service or the good of his subjects, we should not repine, whatever our sufferings are for it; but on my soul, it is the contrary for both.
Página 263 - Neither doth their industry rest here ; for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and at home work the same and perfect it into fustians, vermillions, dimities, and other such stuffs, and...
Página 137 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window and cried through the lattice Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?