Industrial History of the United States: From the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time: Being a Complete Survey of American Industries, Embracing Agriculture and Horticulture; Including the Cultivation of Cotton, Tobacco, Wheat; the Raising of Horses, Neat-cattle, Etc.; Also a History of the Coal-miners and the Molly Maguires; Banks, Insurance, and Commerce; Trade-unions, Strikes, and Eight-hour Movement; Together with a Description of Canadian Industries

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Сторінка 4 - Alas ! for them— their day is o'er, Their fires are out from hill and shore , No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds ; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, Their pleasant springs are dry ; Their children — look, by power oppressed, Beyond the mountains of the west, Their children go — to die.
Сторінка 5 - 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!
Сторінка 363 - Besides manufactories of these articles, which are carried on as regular trades, and have attained to a considerable degree of maturity, there is a vast scene of household manufacturing, which contributes more largely to the supply of the community than, could be imagined, without having made it an object of particular inquiry.
Сторінка 80 - Beautiful is the land, with its prairies and forests of fruit-trees ; Under the feet a garden of flowers, and the bluest of heavens Bending above, and resting its dome on the walls of the forest. They who dwell there have named it the Eden of Louisiana.
Сторінка 344 - For thou, Lord, hast made me glad through thy works : and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.
Сторінка 830 - Of all the American plantations, his Majesty has none so apt for the building of shipping as New England ; nor none comparably so qualified for the breeding of seamen, not only by reason of the natural industry of that people, but, principally, by reason of their Cod and Mackerel fisheries ; and, in my poor opinion, there is nothing more prejudicial, and, in prospect, more dangerous to any mother Kingdom, than the increase of shipping in her Colonies, Plantations, or Provinces.
Сторінка 363 - ... in many instances, to an extent not only sufficient for the supply of the families in which they are made, but for sale, and, even, in some cases, for exportation. It is computed in a number of districts that two-thirds, threefourths, and even four-fifths, of all the clothing of the inhabitants, are made by themselves.
Сторінка 653 - There is no part of the earth here to be taken up wherein there is not a reasonable quantity of gold or silver.
Сторінка 432 - Indeed, some few hides, with much ado, are tanned and made into servants' 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 deer-skin.
Сторінка 560 - There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!

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