A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860..: 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, Volume 1E. Young, 1861 - Industries |
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... linen fabrics of Brescia , the woolen manufactures of Padua , and the glass - houses of Murano , all dependencies of the " City on a Hundred Isles . " These unrivaled manufactures , as well as the riches of Egypt , Syria , and the East ...
... linen fabrics of Brescia , the woolen manufactures of Padua , and the glass - houses of Murano , all dependencies of the " City on a Hundred Isles . " These unrivaled manufactures , as well as the riches of Egypt , Syria , and the East ...
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... linen , often extremely costly , was washed about once a month . Forty shillings was the yearly allowance for the washing of the household . The earl had three country seats , with furniture for but one , and carried all with him when ...
... linen , often extremely costly , was washed about once a month . Forty shillings was the yearly allowance for the washing of the household . The earl had three country seats , with furniture for but one , and carried all with him when ...
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... linen thread . The manufacture declined on the withdrawal of the premiums . A tract entitled , " A Perfect Description of Virginia , " published in London in 1649 , states , that " they had three thousand sheep , six public brew ...
... linen thread . The manufacture declined on the withdrawal of the premiums . A tract entitled , " A Perfect Description of Virginia , " published in London in 1649 , states , that " they had three thousand sheep , six public brew ...
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... linen and woolen cloth , and a reward of fifty pounds of tobacco was given for each pound of silk . It was enjoined upon every person to plant mulberry trees in proportion to the number of acres of land he held . Tan - houses were ...
... linen and woolen cloth , and a reward of fifty pounds of tobacco was given for each pound of silk . It was enjoined upon every person to plant mulberry trees in proportion to the number of acres of land he held . Tan - houses were ...
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... linen , woolen and silk , hats and leather . Yet flax and hemp grow nowhere in the world better than there . Their sheep yield good increase and bear good fleeces ; but they shear them only to cool them . The mulberry tree , whose leaf ...
... linen , woolen and silk , hats and leather . Yet flax and hemp grow nowhere in the world better than there . Their sheep yield good increase and bear good fleeces ; but they shear them only to cool them . The mulberry tree , whose leaf ...
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afterward American arts Assembly bar iron bar-iron Beer bloomery Boston branches brick Britain British built bushels Carolina cent century Cloth Colonies commenced Company Congress Connecticut copper cotton Court Creek Delaware duty early East Jersey employed encouragement England English enterprise erected established exported facture flax foreign forge furnace furnished Governor granted Hampshire hematite hemp Hist hundred imported improvements increased Indian industry invented Iron Iron-works Island Jersey John labor land Leather linen London machine machinery manu manufacture Maryland Massachusetts mentioned merchants metal miles mill nails North Oliver Evans paper patent Pennsylvania Philadelphia port pounds principal printed printer probably production profitable proprietor Province quantity Revolution Rhode Island river Salt Saw-mills sent settlement settlers shillings Ship-building ships shoes Silk slitting mill South Carolina spinning steel street supply tanners Thomas thousand timber tion tons town trade twenty vessels Virginia West William Wine wool woolen York
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Page 162 - 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"!
Page 19 - 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.
Page 610 - State, with the fishing of all sorts of fish, whales, sturgeons, and all other royal fishes in the seas, bays, inlets and rivers within the premises ; and the fish therein taken, together with the royalty of the sea upon the...
Page 149 - 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.
Page 166 - None of these was published oftener than twice a week. None exceeded in size a single small leaf. The quantity of matter which one of them contained in a year was not more than is often found in two numbers of the Times.
Page 409 - Pennsylvania Society for the Encouragement of Manufactures and the Useful Arts...
Page 82 - ... 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.
Page 245 - For," as the Forefathers sang, we can make liquor to sweeten our lips Of pumpkins and parsnips and walnut-tree chips. Finally, as for salt, that grossest of groceries, to obtain this might be a fit occasion for a visit to the seashore, or, if I did without it altogether, I should probably drink the less water. I do not learn that the Indians ever troubled themselves to go after it.
Page 183 - It was carried through the press as privately as possible, and had the London imprint of the copy from which it was reprinted, viz : " London : Printed by Mark Baskett, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty...
Page 216 - No chapter in the history of national manners would illustrate so well, if duly executed, the progress of social life, as that dedicated to domestic architecture. The fashions of dress and of amusements are generally capricious and irreducible to rule ; but every change in the dwellings of mankind, from the rudest wooden cabin to the stately mansion, has been dictated by some principle of convenience, neatness, comfort or magnificence.