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... amount of work which had previously required two men to do ; and the spinsters found themselves more hopelessly distanced than ever in their efforts to supply the weavers with weft . The preparation of weft was entirely accomplished by ...
... amount of work which had previously required two men to do ; and the spinsters found themselves more hopelessly distanced than ever in their efforts to supply the weavers with weft . The preparation of weft was entirely accomplished by ...
Page 47
... amount of employment to a constantly growing population . The textile industries of this country could not indeed have acquired the importance which they have since obtained , if the inventions of Hargreaves , Arkwright , Crompton , and ...
... amount of employment to a constantly growing population . The textile industries of this country could not indeed have acquired the importance which they have since obtained , if the inventions of Hargreaves , Arkwright , Crompton , and ...
Page 62
... amount of the taxes to which they were liable , and who brought both skill and capital to the management of their land . This was the regular practice in Flanders , Artois , Picardy , Normandy , the Isle of France , and other smaller ...
... amount of the taxes to which they were liable , and who brought both skill and capital to the management of their land . This was the regular practice in Flanders , Artois , Picardy , Normandy , the Isle of France , and other smaller ...
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... amount of land culti- vated in small parcels at 27,000,000 hectares , while only 9,000,000 were held at a money rent . The former , there- fore , was nearly equally divided between the small owners and the métayers , who paid their rent ...
... amount of land culti- vated in small parcels at 27,000,000 hectares , while only 9,000,000 were held at a money rent . The former , there- fore , was nearly equally divided between the small owners and the métayers , who paid their rent ...
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... amount of property produced , but — what has so often been called in question has favorably influenced the manner in which it is distributed . The daily wages of the manufacturing laborers in 1788 , according to a rather high estimate ...
... amount of property produced , but — what has so often been called in question has favorably influenced the manner in which it is distributed . The daily wages of the manufacturing laborers in 1788 , according to a rather high estimate ...
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Page 1 - THE colony of a civilized nation which takes possession either of a waste country, or of one so thinly inhabited that the natives easily give place to the new settlers, advances more rapidly to wealth and greatness than any other human society.
Page 402 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 623 - Bricks and coarse tiles, and potters' wares. 6. Ardent spirits and malt liquors. 7. Writing and printing paper, sheathing and wrapping paper, pasteboards, fullers' or press papers, paper hangings. 8. Hats of fur and wool, and mixtures of both; women's stuff and silk shoes. 9. Refined sugars. 10. Oils of animals, and seeds, soap, spermaceti and tallow candles.
Page 2 - ... the land ; and the disproportion between the great extent of the land and the small number of the people, which commonly takes place in new colonies, makes it difficult for him to get this labour.
Page 613 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 612 - Vessels built within the United States and belonging wholly to citizens thereof; and vessels which may be captured in war by citizens of the United States and lawfully condemned as prize, or which may be adjudged to be forfeited for a breach of the laws of the United States...
Page 114 - ... not to seize any neutral vessel which shall be carrying on trade, directly between the colonies of the enemy, and the neutral country to which the vessel belongs...
Page 211 - Bennet, a committee of the House of Commons was appointed to inquire into the state of the police of the metropolis.
Page 610 - Berwick-upon-Tweed, or are of the built of and belonging to any of the said lands, islands, plantations or territories as the proprietors and right owners thereof, and whereof the master and three fourths of the mariners at least are English...
Page 614 - States from any foreign port or place in North America, Central America, the West India Islands, the Bahama Islands, the Bermuda Islands, or the coast of South America bordering on the Caribbean Sea, or the Sandwich Islands, or Newfoundland...