A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures: And the Natural and Commercial History of Sheep, from the Earliest Records to the Present Period, Volumen1Smith, Elder, 1842 |
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... brought up at Leeds , that great mart of the wool and woollen trades , my early mercantile pursuits were devoted to them ; I took a lively interest in every measure likely to affect them ; and whenever questions were agitated , I took ...
... brought up at Leeds , that great mart of the wool and woollen trades , my early mercantile pursuits were devoted to them ; I took a lively interest in every measure likely to affect them ; and whenever questions were agitated , I took ...
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... brought into one focus on each subject . At the close of the second volume I have inserted statistical tables relating to wool and woollens , tracing them and their extent for the last century . I have also , from tables , endea- voured ...
... brought into one focus on each subject . At the close of the second volume I have inserted statistical tables relating to wool and woollens , tracing them and their extent for the last century . I have also , from tables , endea- voured ...
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... brought forcibly to my mind the description of pastoral life in the Bible history . What a picture would Landseer make of such a pilgrimage ! The snowy tops of the mountains were seen through the lofty and dark green fir - trees ...
... brought forcibly to my mind the description of pastoral life in the Bible history . What a picture would Landseer make of such a pilgrimage ! The snowy tops of the mountains were seen through the lofty and dark green fir - trees ...
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... brought much interesting information with regard to the purple of antiquity , and from their works the following particulars are chiefly drawn . " The preeminence given at the present day to purple , as a royal colour , is un- doubtedly ...
... brought much interesting information with regard to the purple of antiquity , and from their works the following particulars are chiefly drawn . " The preeminence given at the present day to purple , as a royal colour , is un- doubtedly ...
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... brought from a furnace . By this process , fleshy particles were carried off , and the liquor left pure after about ten days ' settling . “ The dye was tried by dipping locks of wool in it , till they had imbibed a dark blue colour . As ...
... brought from a furnace . By this process , fleshy particles were carried off , and the liquor left pure after about ten days ' settling . “ The dye was tried by dipping locks of wool in it , till they had imbibed a dark blue colour . As ...
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A Comprehensive History of the Woollen and Worsted Manufactures, Volumen1 James Bischoff Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
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advantage appears Arkwright breed of sheep Britain British wool carding cattle Charles Wyatt cloth clothiers coarse wool colour combing commerce committee common consequence considerable cotton ditto duty Elath England English wool Europe exportation of wool facture favour fleece flocks foreign wool former France French groschen hath Holland House importation of foreign improvement increase interest invention Ireland Irish Irish wool King kingdom labour land latter laws Lewis Paul Lincolnshire linen long wool Lord machine manu manufac medium Merchant Adventurers merino sheep nation Ophir opinion Parliament pasture patent petition pounds present price of wool produce profit prohibition Prussia purple quantity of wool rams raw material Red Sea reign Rhinocorura runnage silk Sir Joseph Banks Spain Spanish wool spinning stuffs Tarshish tion tures wool and woollen wool growers woollen exports woollen manufacture woollen trade Wyatt yarn yearly
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