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... Most of the letters , some 3,000 in all , are docketed by Rigby , but in a few cases the docket is in the handwriting of William Pare . March , 1906 . F. P. CONTENTS VOL . I CHAPTER I BOYHOOD Parentage - Description PREFACE vii.
... Most of the letters , some 3,000 in all , are docketed by Rigby , but in a few cases the docket is in the handwriting of William Pare . March , 1906 . F. P. CONTENTS VOL . I CHAPTER I BOYHOOD Parentage - Description PREFACE vii.
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... March 13 , 1795 , Thoughts on the Connection between Universal Happiness and Practical Mechanics and on January 13 , 1797 , On the Origin of Opinions with a View to the Improvement of the Social Virtues.2 None of Owen's papers were ...
... March 13 , 1795 , Thoughts on the Connection between Universal Happiness and Practical Mechanics and on January 13 , 1797 , On the Origin of Opinions with a View to the Improvement of the Social Virtues.2 None of Owen's papers were ...
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... March , however , the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent ; 1 In 1796 there was founded in Manchester , mainly through the efforts of Dr. Percival , the Manchester Board of Health , the main object of which was to devise ...
... March , however , the partnership was dissolved by mutual consent ; 1 In 1796 there was founded in Manchester , mainly through the efforts of Dr. Percival , the Manchester Board of Health , the main object of which was to devise ...
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... March . The following 1 The actual cost of the schools in 1816 was £ 700 a year , viz . £ 550 for salaries of a Head Master and ten assistants , and £ 150 for lighting , heating , and materials . ( Evidence given before Lord Brougham's ...
... March . The following 1 The actual cost of the schools in 1816 was £ 700 a year , viz . £ 550 for salaries of a Head Master and ten assistants , and £ 150 for lighting , heating , and materials . ( Evidence given before Lord Brougham's ...
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... March , 1818 , John Griscom , Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the New York Institute , in the course of a tour in Europe , in which he inspected the poor colonies in Holland and other social experiments of the kind ...
... March , 1818 , John Griscom , Professor of Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in the New York Institute , in the course of a tour in Europe , in which he inspected the poor colonies in Holland and other social experiments of the kind ...
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Seite 112 - That any character — from the best to the worst, from the most ignorant to the most enlightened — may be given to any community, even to the world at large, by applying certain means, which are to a great extent at the command and under the control, or easily made so, of those who possess the government of nations.
Seite 108 - The difference of natural talents in different men is, in reality, much less than we are aware of; and the very different genius which appears to distinguish men of different professions, when grown up to maturity, is not upon many occasions BO much the cause as the effect of the division of labor.
Seite 338 - I have the honour to be, my dear sir, Your most obedient humble servant, DERBY.
Seite 28 - Among the Manufacturers Houses are likewise scattered an infinite Number of Cottages or small Dwellings, in which dwell the Workmen which are employed, the Women and Children of whom, are always busy Carding, Spinning, &c.
Seite 27 - ... the chapmen used to keep gangs of pack-horses and accompany them to the principal towns with goods in packs, which they opened and sold to shopkeepers, lodging what was unsold in small stores at the inns. The pack-horses brought back sheep's wool, which was bought on the journey and sold to the makers of worsted yarn at Manchester, or to the clothiers of Rochdale, Saddleworth, and the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Seite 114 - If then due care as to the state of your inanimate machines can produce such beneficial results, what may not be expected if you devote equal attention to your vital machines, which are far more wonderfully constructed? When you shall acquire a right knowledge of these, of their curious mechanism, of their self-adjusting powers; when the proper...
Seite 342 - ... that they have been and are the real source of vice, disunion and misery of every description; that they are now the only real bar to the formation of a society of virtue, of intelligence, of charity in its most extended sense, and of sincerity and kindness among the whole human family ; and that they can be no longer maintained except through the ignorance of the mass of the people, and the tyranny of the few over that mass.
Seite 122 - I found him a man of kind manners and good intentions, of an imperturbable temper, and an enthusiastic desire to promote the happiness of mankind.
Seite 45 - Three hundred a year,' was my reply. 'What?', Mr Drinkwater said, with some surprise, repeating the words, 'three hundred a year! I have had this morning I know not how many seeking the situation, and I do not think that all their askings together would amount to what you require.' 'I cannot be governed by what others ask,' said I, 'and I cannot take less. I am now making that sum by my own business.
Seite 28 - ... and his provisions from the market, to carry his yarn to the spinners, his manufacture to the fulling mill, and, when finished, to the market to be sold, and the like; so every manufacturer generally keeps a cow or two, or more, for his family, and this employs the two, or three, or four pieces of enclosed land about his house, for they scarce sow corn enough for their cocks and hens; and this feeding their grounds still adds by the dung of the cattle, to enrich the soil.