A History of England from the Conclusion of the Great War in 1815, Volume 1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - Great Britain |
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... persons , who should have known better , applied to it . If the staple trade of the country had originally been in woollen goods at the commencement of the present century , cotton was rapidly gaining upon wool . Cotton had been used in ...
... persons , who should have known better , applied to it . If the staple trade of the country had originally been in woollen goods at the commencement of the present century , cotton was rapidly gaining upon wool . Cotton had been used in ...
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... persons out of employment . A mob broke into his house and destroyed his machine . Hargreaves himself had to retire to Nottingham , where , with the friendly assistance of another person , he was able to take out a patent for the ...
... persons out of employment . A mob broke into his house and destroyed his machine . Hargreaves himself had to retire to Nottingham , where , with the friendly assistance of another person , he was able to take out a patent for the ...
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... house . Tartan tatters gave place to the produce of Manchester and Glasgow looms ; and very soon few young 1 Meteyard's Wedgwood , vol . i . p . 243 , note . 6 CHAP . I. persons were to be found who could HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 87.
... house . Tartan tatters gave place to the produce of Manchester and Glasgow looms ; and very soon few young 1 Meteyard's Wedgwood , vol . i . p . 243 , note . 6 CHAP . I. persons were to be found who could HISTORY OF ENGLAND . 87.
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Sir Spencer Walpole. CHAP . I. persons were to be found who could not both read and write English.'1 Telford's roads had called a new Scotland into exist- ence . But Telford's name was as powerful in North Wales as in the Highlands . The ...
Sir Spencer Walpole. CHAP . I. persons were to be found who could not both read and write English.'1 Telford's roads had called a new Scotland into exist- ence . But Telford's name was as powerful in North Wales as in the Highlands . The ...
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... persons who are still alive , the mails were con- veyed either on horseback or in carts specially constructed for the purpose . In 1784 , however , John Palmer , of Bath , suggested the common - sense alternative of employ- ing the ...
... persons who are still alive , the mails were con- veyed either on horseback or in carts specially constructed for the purpose . In 1784 , however , John Palmer , of Bath , suggested the common - sense alternative of employ- ing the ...
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