A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860...E. Young, 1866 - Industries |
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... century of civil and religious strife . His efforts in behalf of Com- merce and Manufactures , and all the arts of peace , were suspended by his untimely assassination in 1610. During the minority and reign of his son , Louis XIII ...
... century of civil and religious strife . His efforts in behalf of Com- merce and Manufactures , and all the arts of peace , were suspended by his untimely assassination in 1610. During the minority and reign of his son , Louis XIII ...
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... century which includes the very early history of the American colonies , may be inferred from a few facts , which supply the place of correct statistics . During the comparatively tranquil reign of Elizabeth , England had rapidly ...
... century which includes the very early history of the American colonies , may be inferred from a few facts , which supply the place of correct statistics . During the comparatively tranquil reign of Elizabeth , England had rapidly ...
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... century , employed but two cooks for a retinue of two hundred persons , including seventy strangers daily counted upon ; had no sheets ; and the table linen , often extremely costly , was washed about once a month . Forty shillings was ...
... century , employed but two cooks for a retinue of two hundred persons , including seventy strangers daily counted upon ; had no sheets ; and the table linen , often extremely costly , was washed about once a month . Forty shillings was ...
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... century nearly all traveling was on horseback , and goods were transported on pack - horses , the foremost wearing a ... century had been compara- tively small ; and the examination may better enable the reader to appre- MINING AND ...
... century nearly all traveling was on horseback , and goods were transported on pack - horses , the foremost wearing a ... century had been compara- tively small ; and the examination may better enable the reader to appre- MINING AND ...
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... CENTURY . 21 Yet the But the ciate the evidences of activity , and of slow but steady progress made amidst poverty , hardship , and savage hostility , in our own country , even previous to the time when national independence and public ...
... CENTURY . 21 Yet the But the ciate the evidences of activity , and of slow but steady progress made amidst poverty , hardship , and savage hostility , in our own country , even previous to the time when national independence and public ...
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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...