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, Volume 1Edward Young & Company, 1864 - Industries |
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... 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 he removed , one cart sufficing for all the kitchen utensils , cooks ...
... 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 he removed , one cart sufficing for all the kitchen utensils , cooks ...
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... shillings in London . They became so dear in 1643 , that many perished for want of fuel , which the tardy means of supply could not prevent . A pamphlet of that period has the imprint- " Printed in the year That sea coal was exceeding ...
... shillings in London . They became so dear in 1643 , that many perished for want of fuel , which the tardy means of supply could not prevent . A pamphlet of that period has the imprint- " Printed in the year That sea coal was exceeding ...
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... shillings a week , but ranged as high as six or seven in summer . And for workmen in woolens , the staple manufacture of England , six shillings were considered fair wages . These prices , it is evident , were not more than one half the ...
... shillings a week , but ranged as high as six or seven in summer . And for workmen in woolens , the staple manufacture of England , six shillings were considered fair wages . These prices , it is evident , were not more than one half the ...
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... shillings per ( 1 ) The first patent granted in England for the manufacture of glass , was on 22d May , 1623 , to Sir Robert Mansell , for " a method of making glass with sea coal , pit coal , or any other fuel not being timber or wood ...
... shillings per ( 1 ) The first patent granted in England for the manufacture of glass , was on 22d May , 1623 , to Sir Robert Mansell , for " a method of making glass with sea coal , pit coal , or any other fuel not being timber or wood ...
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... shillings per pound , while that of Virginia was limited in the Colony to three shillings , and the duty was the same upon both . The following was the valuation of a few articles , growing or to be had in the Colony in 1621 , viz ...
... shillings per pound , while that of Virginia was limited in the Colony to three shillings , and the duty was the same upon both . The following was the valuation of a few articles , growing or to be had in the Colony in 1621 , viz ...
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Page 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"!
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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?