Chronological and Statistical History of Cotton

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J. Sutton & Company, printers, 1872 - 650 halaman
 

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Halaman xii - The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human affairs can scarce admit of a remedy.
Halaman xii - By such maxims as these, however, nations have been taught that their interest consisted in beggaring all their neighbours. Each nation has been made to look with an invidious eye upon the prosperity of all the nations with which it trades, and to consider their gain as its own loss. Commerce, which ought naturally to be, among nations as among individuals, a bond of union and friendship, 1ms become the most fertile source of discord and animosity.
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Halaman 38 - In short, it required the strength of two powerful men to work the machine at a slow rate, and only for a short tune.
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Halaman 2 - ... is obliged to send it all to the Great Mogul's seraglio, and the principal lords of the court, to make the sultanesses and noblemen's wives...
Halaman 21 - In the year 1730, or thereabouts, living then at a village near Litchfield, our respected father first conceived the project, and prepared to carry it into effect ; and in the year 1733, by a model of about two feet square, in a small building near Sutton Coldfield, without a single witness to the performance, was spun the first thread of cotton ever produced without the intervention of the human fingers, — he, the inventor, to use his own words, ' being all the time in a pleasing but trembling...
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Halaman 31 - Britain, adopted a plan for the encouragement of arts and manufactures, including resolutions of non-importation ; and "that all persons having proper land ought to cultivate and raise a quantity of hemp, flax, and cotton, not only for the use of his own family, but to spare to others on moderate terms.

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