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... flax was plentiful , it could hardly happen but that linen rags should sometimes get mixed with the cotton ones employed in the manufacture ; and if , from such accidental mixture , the quality of the paper was improved , it followed as ...
... flax was plentiful , it could hardly happen but that linen rags should sometimes get mixed with the cotton ones employed in the manufacture ; and if , from such accidental mixture , the quality of the paper was improved , it followed as ...
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... keep the apartment as free from disturbance as * Marshall's flax - mill at Leeds , erected about four years ago , is about 400 feet by 216 feet . possible , lest the surface of the glass be disturbed 30 ARTS AND MANUFACTURES .
... keep the apartment as free from disturbance as * Marshall's flax - mill at Leeds , erected about four years ago , is about 400 feet by 216 feet . possible , lest the surface of the glass be disturbed 30 ARTS AND MANUFACTURES .
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... flax is said to have belonged originally to Egypt ; the sheep , which furnishes wool , to the mountain ranges of Asia ; the silk - worm to China ; and the cotton plant to India and America . Although cotton was not generally known among ...
... flax is said to have belonged originally to Egypt ; the sheep , which furnishes wool , to the mountain ranges of Asia ; the silk - worm to China ; and the cotton plant to India and America . Although cotton was not generally known among ...
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... flax ; there are , however , but few notices among Greek and Latin writers , and not one among Hebrew writers , referring to cotton . In the old world the growth and manufacture of cotton were confined to those populous regions lying ...
... flax ; there are , however , but few notices among Greek and Latin writers , and not one among Hebrew writers , referring to cotton . In the old world the growth and manufacture of cotton were confined to those populous regions lying ...
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... flax , or rather something much whiter and finer than flax . They wear shirts of the same , which reach down to the middle of their legs ; and veils , which cover their head and a great part of their shoulders . " Strabo also , on the ...
... flax , or rather something much whiter and finer than flax . They wear shirts of the same , which reach down to the middle of their legs ; and veils , which cover their head and a great part of their shoulders . " Strabo also , on the ...
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الصفحة 37 - Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
الصفحة 45 - I then had of the business, there could be only three movements which were to follow each other in succession, there would be little difficulty in producing and repeating them. Full of these ideas, I immediately employed a carpenter and a smith to carry them into effect.
الصفحة 35 - First with nice eye emerging Naiads cull From leathery pods the vegetable wool; With wiry teeth revolving cards release The tangled knots, and smooth the...
الصفحة 4 - ... a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the...
الصفحة 15 - Smyrna, and at home worke the same, and perfect it into fustians, vermillions, dimities, and other such stuffes, and then return it to London, where the same is vented and sold, and not seldom sent into forrain parts, who have means, at far easier termes, to provide themselves of the said first materials.
الصفحة 37 - And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
الصفحة 5 - ... negroes exhibit a surprising alteration in a few weeks after the mill is set in action. The labouring horses, oxen and mules, though almost constantly at work during this season, yet, being indulged with plenty of the green tops of this noble plant, and some of the scummings from the boiling-house, improve more than at any other period of the year. Even the pigs and poultry fatten on the refuse.
الصفحة 46 - ... constantly, fed with water and fuel, toils through the day with the strength of perhaps a hundred horses. Men, in the meanwhile, have merely to attend on this wonderful series of mechanism, to supply it with work, to oil its joints, and to check its slight and infrequent irregularities ; each workman performing, or rather superintending, as much work as could have been done by two or three hundred men sixty years ago.
الصفحة 32 - Fleece, wherein, indeed, the fleece was ours, the golden theirs, — so vast their emolument by the trade of clothing. Our King, therefore, resolved, if possible, to reduce the trade to his own country, who, as yet, were ignorant of that art, as knowing no more what to do with their wool than the sheep that wear it, as to any artificial and curious drapery ; their best clothes then being no better than friezes, such their coarseness for want of skill in their making.
الصفحة 1 - Liberty is a lesson quickly conned by heart, men having a principle within themselves to prompt them, in case they forget it. Persuaded with the promises, many Dutch servants leave their masters and make over for England. Their departure thence (being picked here and there) made no sensible vacuity, but their meeting here altogether amounted to a considerable fulness. "With themselves they brought over their trade and their tools, namely, such which could not as yet be so conveniently made in England.