A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...E. Young, 1866 - Industries |
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... silk manufactures of Lyons received their first impulse . He rewarded with patents of nobility those who had spent twelve years in the manufacture . Colbert placed under royal patronage the famous Gobelin tapestry manufactures , to ...
... silk manufactures of Lyons received their first impulse . He rewarded with patents of nobility those who had spent twelve years in the manufacture . Colbert placed under royal patronage the famous Gobelin tapestry manufactures , to ...
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... silk and cloth of gold , or jeweled and enamelled insignia for the mailed knight , gay trappings of lace and silver for his steed , and chaplets , rosaries , gold and silver clasps , and images of the Virgin for the hand of his lady ...
... silk and cloth of gold , or jeweled and enamelled insignia for the mailed knight , gay trappings of lace and silver for his steed , and chaplets , rosaries , gold and silver clasps , and images of the Virgin for the hand of his lady ...
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... silk , plate - glass , woolen and other manufactures slowly found their way into Western Europe , as they had been slowly introduced into Italy , by the Greeks and Saracens from the East , they long continued , as in their former seats ...
... silk , plate - glass , woolen and other manufactures slowly found their way into Western Europe , as they had been slowly introduced into Italy , by the Greeks and Saracens from the East , they long continued , as in their former seats ...
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... silk was more than one thousand years in traveling into England from the shores of the Bosphorus . It had been practiced four hundred years in Italy before it crossed the Alps . CHAPTER II . ORIGIN OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES CONTINUED ...
... silk was more than one thousand years in traveling into England from the shores of the Bosphorus . It had been practiced four hundred years in Italy before it crossed the Alps . CHAPTER II . ORIGIN OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES CONTINUED ...
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... silk equal to Italy ; that there were divers minerals , especially " iron oare , " some of which , having been sent home , had been found to yield as good iron as any in the world ; that a kind of Hemp or Flax and Silk grass grew there ...
... silk equal to Italy ; that there were divers minerals , especially " iron oare , " some of which , having been sent home , had been found to yield as good iron as any in the world ; that a kind of Hemp or Flax and Silk grass grew there ...
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afterward American arts Assembly bar-iron Beer bloomery Boston branches brick Britain British built bushels Carolina carried 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 Iron Iron-works Island Jersey John labor land Leather linen London machine machinery manu manufacture Maryland Massachusetts mentioned merchants metal miles mill nails native 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 Tench Coxe thousand timber tion tons town trade twenty vessels Virginia West William Wine wool woolen York
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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 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 325 - English shipping and seamen, and in the vent of 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.
Page 298 - And no man now thought he could live except he had cattle and a great deal of ground to keep them, all striving to increase their stocks. By which means they were scattered all over the Bay quickly and the town in which they lived compactly till now was left very thin and in a short time almost desolate.
Page 136 - 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...
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 268 - Degr. relating the meanes of raysing infinite profits to the Adventurers and Planters. The second Edition, with Addition of The Discovery of Silkworms, with their benefit. And Implanting of Mulberry Trees. Also The Dressing of Vines, for the rich Trade of making Wines in Virginia.
Page 302 - Our other in-garments are clout upon clout: Our clothes we brought with us are apt to be torn, They need to be clouted soon after they're worn, But clouting our garments they hinder us nothing, Clouts double are warmer than single whole clothing.
Page 430 - Shoes; but at so careless a rate, that the Planters don't care to buy them, if they can get others; and sometimes perhaps a better manager than ordinary, will vouchsafe to make a pair of Breeches of a Deerskin. Nay, they are such abominable Ill-husbands, that tho...