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...“Languages”, Sir Arthur Cotton writes, “are usually learnt as if it took a long time to learn the grammar &c., but that to speak with a good pronunciation and expression, and freely, and to catch the words from a speaker by the ear were easily and q...

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...s, promontories — with outlandish names of lumber-ports, of rice-ports, of cotton- ports — with the names of islands — with the name of their son’s yo... ... his cap, his coat, and stood propped against the gear-casing in a striped cotton shirt open on his breast. The little brass wheel in his hands had th... ...ead. The fluffy, fair hair, soaked and darkened, resembled a mean skein of cotton threads fes- tooned round his bare skull. His face, glistening with ...

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... windows, and finally, seating herself behind the desk, drew out a roll of cotton lace and a steel crochet hook. She was not an expert workwoman, and ... ...he crushed her face, the fingering of the wind in her hair and through her cotton blouse, and the creak of the larches as they swayed to it. She often...

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...d head, and could take on a sudden distant bearing. ‘Didn’t want to—didn’t cotton on, like. Well—they be art- ful, the women—’ he mimicked his landlor... ...on that was longer than her preposterously short skirt, and she had on the cotton bonnet. I took off my hat to her and was going on. But she put down ...

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...e chained and flung into the pit, England stepped in, and, for the sake of cotton, made Satan victorious. The world has been saved from this calamity,... ...uctive resources of the country to be concentrated on one or two products, cotton being the chief, which require, to raise and prepare them for the ma... ...se and prepare them for the market, little besides brute animal force. The cotton cultivation, in the opinion of all competent judges, alone saves Nor... ...e opinion of all competent judges, alone saves North American slavery; but cotton cultivation, exclusively adhered to, exhausts in a mod erate number... ...who, in Western T exas, have made so meritorious a commencement of growing cotton on the borders of the Mexi can Gulf by free labor? Were the right o...

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... stealth delivered her cargo, among which was some bales of English cloth, cotton, kerseys, and such-like goods, the Span- iards caused all the goods ...

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...e of the first settlers of New England, of whom honorable mention is made by Cotton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Ch... ...dly undertook, some years after, to travestie the Bible in doggrel verse, as Cotton had done Virgil. By this means he set many of the facts in a very ...

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...besides, but he must have been conscious of the deadly explosives, the gun-cotton and the giant powder, he was hoarding in his drawer. Let some contem...

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..., olive green, nor his cloak with its morocco collar, nor the striped blue cotton shirt. In this queer figure—so original that we cannot rub it out—ho... ...ear type, well set up; what I call ‘good nap.’ None of your botched stuff, cotton and wool, trumpery; flimsy rubbish that rips if you look at it. It i...

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...he more common of which are glassware, artificial flowers, candy boxes and cotton goods. There- fore, the consumer who makes no effort to suppress thi... ...ON CLASP IIESFLATTOTHEIEG-NEVER SLIPS,TEARS NOR UNFASTENS lo p.ir, SllkMc. Cotton 2Sc. lalirdonreceipt o( price. aSO.FBOST00.,lIUwi BMtoo.HMi., V. 8.A... ...ASP LIES FLATTO THE LEG—NEVER SLIPS. TEARS NORUNFASTENS . Ippair, Sl%.Wr., Cotton 2flc. Alailodon receipt of price. GEO.FBOST CO.,Makeri BoitcD,Maai.,... ...ON CLASP UESFUTTOTHEIEG-NEVER SLIPS,TEARSHOR UNFASTENS !e pair, Silk/Ktr., Cotton 2.1c. MalU'don receipt of price. IEO.rSOBTCO.,IIaken Boston,MsiB..T7... ...ON CLASP MESFUTTO THE LEG-NEVER SUPS.TEARS NOR UNFASTENS . lepslr.SllVaOc. Cotton 25c. AUlk'donrecvi|]| ofprice. OEO.TBOBTCO.,lCsksTt BoitOD,UaM.,V.S.... ...SP LIES FLATTO THE LEO-NE»ER SLIPS,TEARS NORUNFASTENS Sample pair, SlIkMc, CottonMc. " lilcdonrectlptofprlce. ^ SSa.rBOSTao.,Maksra Boston,Hasa.,U.B.A... ...CLASP LIES FLAT TO THE LEG-NEVER SLIPS,TEARS NOR UNFASTENS Icpnlr.SdkfiOc, Cotton $>c. Alaili'don receipt of price. '* aEO.FIt08TCO.,Ukkeri Boston,Mmi... ... LIES FUTTO THE lEG-NEVER SLIPS,TEARS NOR UNFASTENS Sample pair, Silk.Wc.. Cotton 2fic. liedon receipt of price. aSO.nOBTOO„IIakerB Boston, lIais,,U,S... ...LASP LIES riATTO THE LEO-NEVER SLIPS,TEARS NORUNFASTENS nplppair, SilXaOc, CottonKo, AlHik'doD receipt ofprice. aEO.FB08TaO.,lUltera Botton.Uui.,U, 8....

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...lity should be abolished, and that everybody should wear the kadhar (handspun cotton) dress for Self Respect. But the chief of the Self Respecter’s ... ...s are not untouchable. But those who eat the cow, which eats green grass and cottonseeds, are untouchable. What is suitable for intelligence and ju... ...ouchability, Hindu- Muslim unity, prohibition of liquor, and kadhar (handspun cotton). What happened to these four? 177 The removal of untouchabil...

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...g about. I am doing my job that is all.” Gertie snatched a scrap of white cotton from her sewing basket and handed it to Morgan for her cheek. “I...

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...mate- rial and better make would sit ill sorted on his gigantic limbs. His cotton umbrella, without a handle, and tied to- gether with a coarse string... ...dherents and the opponents of Douglas, during which the delegates from the cotton States had withdrawn, the convention adjourned without having nomina... ...no immi- nent danger was apprehended from it till, by the invention of the cotton gin in 1792, cotton culture by negro labor became at once and foreve... ...Where has the American farmer a market for his surplus produce? Except for cotton, he has neither a foreign nor a home market. Does not this clearly p...

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...Worcester and in part in the County of Middlesex, and your commission is superseded accordingly. I am, Sir, your most Ob’t and Humble Sv’t Jno. Cotton, Dep,ty Sec,y.” In return, Colonel Ward sent his compliments to the Governor as follows: “Tell him that I consider myself twice honored, but more in being superceded than in being commissioned, and that ...

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...ohn Fellows’s Regiment Chapter 6: Colonel Ebenezer Bridge’s Regiment Chapter 7: Colonel Timothy Walker’s Regiment Chapter 8: Colonel Theophilus Cotton’s Regiment Chapter 9: Colonel James Frye’s Regiment Chapter 10: Colonel Ruggles Woodbridge’s Regiment Chapter 11: Colonel Thomas Gardner’s Regiment Chapter 12: Colonel Samuel Gerrish’s Regiment Chapter 13: Genera...

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...coal, chro- mium Agriculture: corn, wheat, potatoes, to- bacco, sugar beets, cotton Major industries: agricultural products and processing, textiles a... ...feldspar, gold, bauxite, uranium Agriculture: cash crops coffee, sisal, corn cotton, sugar, manioc, and tobacco; food crops cassava, corn, vegetables,... ...86 est.) oil, coffee, diamonds, sisal, fish and fish prod- ucts, timber, and cotton Imports: $1.4 billion (f.o.b., 1986 est.); capital equipment (mach... ...apita; inflation rate 4.0% (1985) Natural resources: negligible Agriculture: cotton (main crop), sugar, livestock Major industries: tourism 15.2%, con... ... dependent on monsoon rain- fall; main crops are jute, tea, and rice; grain, cotton, and oilseed shortages Fishing: production 751,000 metric tons (19... ...metric tons (1984) Major industries: jute manufactures, food processing, and cotton textiles Electric power: 1,212,000 kW capacity; 4,590 million kWh ... ... leather, tea Imports: $2.6 billion (c.i.f., FY85); food- grains, fuels, raw cotton, fertilizer, manu- factured products Major trade partners: exports... ...ls in commercial quantity Agriculture: major cash crop is palm oil; peanuts, cotton, coffee, shea nuts, and tobacco also produced commercially; main f... ...er capita (1986) Exports: $172.5 million (f.o.b., 1984 est.); palm products, cotton, other agricultural products Imports: $225.4 million (f.o.b. 1984 ...

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...ectricity were gradually increased and subsidies to state-owned utilities (such as cotton mills) decreased. This brought about a belated wave of pa... ...ex. After a dip in 1999 (3.1%) - growth picked up again to 4.5% , fuelled by bumper cotton and wheat crops in 2000. Pakistani citizens had as many d...

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...tuation of both Kamatipura, the largest red-light area in the world, and Cotton Green, the largest truck terminus in Asia both at Mumbai. While Kam... ... both at Mumbai. While Kamatipura is notoriously famous for its brothels, Cotton Green deserves some mention: everyday more than 5,000 trucks come ...

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...g air. Brent looked around. A grey fog hung in misty clumps scattered like huge cotton balls throughout the forest. A sense of mystery pervaded ever...

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...ble societies, which used her knitting receipts to clothe the poor mill workers who were out of work due to the American Civil War and the embargo of cotton. In addition to recording the original patterns, knitters have also knitted samples of these patterns, displayed at the http://knitting-and.com/wiki/Exercises_in_Knitting KntiWiki , and have attempted to condense and c...

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...ome wiser than the framers of the Constitu- tion, and the invention of the cotton gin had made the perpetu- ity of slavery a necessity in this country... ...riginally placed it,—I wish to annihilate the State Legislatures, to force cotton to grow upon the tops of the Green Mountains, to freeze ice in Flori... ...and the inven- 88 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Three tion of the cotton-gin have taught us that the perpetuation of slavery is a necessity. ...

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...Rocky Mountains, and south by the line along which the culture of corn and cotton meets, and which in- cludes part of Virginia, part of Tennessee, all... ...ople of the North; and when it is remembered how unhesitatingly we all use cotton and sugar and share the profits of dealing in them, it may not be qu... ...suppressed and notice thereof has been duly given by proclamation; and all cotton, tobacco, and other products, and all other goods and chattels, ware...

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... which pro- duce crops of a different kind. The cultivation of tobacco, of cotton, and especially of the sugar-cane, demands, on the other hand, unrem... ...itted to the countries from which these productions are derived. T obacco, cotton, and the sugar-cane are exclusively grown in the South, and they for... ... and manufacturing. In the South the crops consist of tobacco, of rice, of cotton, and of sugar; in the North and the West, of wheat and maize. These ... ...a of the rice of the Carolinas, the tobacco of Virginia, and the sugar and cotton which grow in the valley of the Missis- sippi? Every portion of the ... ...the North arrive in the Southern States, and settle in the parts where the cotton plant and the sugar-cane grow. These men cultivate the soil in order... ...rity which exists upon the history of New England, is the work of the Rev. Cotton Mather, entitled “Magnalia Christi Americana, or the Ecclesiastical ... ...n America and the troubles to which the Church of New England was exposed. Cotton Mather was an evangelical minister who was born at Boston, and passe... ...this world appeared to him an incontestable and evident fact. This work of Cotton Mather displays, in many places, the spirit of civil liberty and pol...

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... seventeenth century, this Priory had been in the occupation of Sir Robert Cotton, the antiquary, the friend of Ben Jonson, of Coke, of Selden, etc., ...

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...puffy and red with streaks of tears; he tried to speak, but his mouth was like cotton. "Michael," she sobbed. "Thank God, you're all right." Brand...

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...eping his hands in the pockets of his loose greasy overcoat made of yellow cotton material. “I can still pass for a man at five and fifty, but I want ... ...le with a few drops of vodka. A woman of genteel appearance, wearing a cotton gown, was sitting on a chair by the bed on the left. Her face was th... ...at he instinctively drew back a step. He was dressed in a very shabby dark cotton coat, patched and spotted. He wore checked trousers of an extremely ... ...y long face, flaxen curls, and a long, thin, reddish beard, wearing a blue cotton shirt and a black waistcoat, from the pocket of which peeped the cha... ...ks and packages were kept, and there were two large beds, with pyramids of cotton pillows on each. There was a lighted candle on a small deal table in... ...had been sitting till that moment was too small, and was divided in two by cotton curtains, behind which was a huge bed with a puffy feather mattress ... ...behind which was a huge bed with a puffy feather mattress and a pyramid of cotton pillows. In the four rooms for visitors there 407 Dostoevsky were b... ...try and a great number of live fowls. The market women were selling rolls, cottons and threads, etc., in their booths. These Sunday mar- kets were nai... ...side and Maximov lay, half reclining, on it. He wore a dressing-gown and a cotton nightcap, and was evi- dently ill and weak, though he was smiling bl...

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...at Fort Brown, opposite Matamoras, was built by that army within a Mexican cotton-field, on which at the time the army reached it a young cotton crop ... ... family. Now, why is this? Y ou do not so treat the man who deals in corn, cotton, or tobacco. And yet again: There are in the United States and Terri... ...s of their black cap- tors, and he honestly buys them at the rate of a red cotton handkerchief a head. This is very cheap, and it is a great abridgmen... ...han fifty years Virginia changed its tune, and made negro-breeding for the cotton and sugar States one of its leading industries. [Laughter and applau...

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...eping his hands in the pockets of his loose greasy overcoat made of yellow cotton material. “I can still pass for a man at five and fifty, but I want ... ...le with a few drops of vodka. A woman of genteel appearance, wearing a cotton gown, was sitting on a chair by the bed on the left. Her face was th... ...at he instinctively drew back a step. He was dressed in a very shabby dark cotton coat, patched and spotted. He wore checked trousers of an extremely ...

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... preserve themselves also, incidentally, like some precious jewel wrapped in cotton wool if only for the benefit of “the sublime and the beautiful.” ...

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...the slave holders of South Carolina and Louisiana. “ It is necessary that cotton and sugar should be grown. White men can not produce them. Negroes ...

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...ghfare. The many sounds become so deadened that the change is like putting cotton in the ears, or having the head thickly muffled. At that time the co...

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... from Tyndale‘s flight and took delivery of his Bibles hidden in bales of cotton and sacks of flour. The king‘s men would buy up every ... ...colony near Pittsburgh, twelve-year-old Andrew worked during the day as a cotton-factory bobbin boy monitoring spindles of yarn. Nights, he studied ...

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...es of Mexico and the power of Peru? They still produce sugar, guano, gold, cotton, coffee—al- most whatever we may ask them—and will continue to do so... ...it behooved them to be prepared. As a separate nation—a nation trusting to cotton, having in their hands, as they imagined, a monopoly of the staple o... ...eding-grounds of Virginia have been the result. At that time there were no cotton fields. Alabama and 62 North America V ol. 2 Mississippi were outly... ...States have grown and be- come fertile. The planters have thriven, and the cotton fields have spread themselves. And then came emancipa- tion in the B... ... higher in the world than Mexico and the republics of Central America. Her cotton monopoly will have vanished, and her wealth will have been wasted. I... ...ld probably die out slowly—very slowly. What might then be the fate of the cotton fields of the Gulf States, who shall dare to say? It may be that coo... ...h the object of seeing what sort of place Manchester is, he must visit the cotton mills and printing establishments, though he may have no taste for c... ... worse still, of many low and de- based nations. They will have lost their cotton monopoly by the competition created during the period of the war, an... ... fact that their lands have been coterminous, that theirs was especially a cotton district, which has tempted them to secession. They have been tempte...

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...st. It may be to our advantage to procure iron from Sweden in exchange for cottons, even although the mines of England as well as her manufactories sh... ...ductive than those of Swe- den; for if we have an advantage of one-half in cottons, and only an advantage of a quarter in iron, and could sell our cot... ...f, we should obtain our iron with an advantage of one-half, as well as our cottons. We may often, by trading with foreigners, obtain their com- moditi... ...y the augmentation of his own money income. The French consumer of English cottons, on the contrary, would not long continue to be able to purchase th... ...turers would be surprised if they were told that the free admission of our cottons and hardware into the French market, would en- danger their branch ... ...most advan- tageously pay us in silks for a portion of the large amount of cottons and hardware which we should sell to her; and though 37 John Stuar... ...ame Pasta was as well entitled to be called productive labour as that of a cotton spinner. Employed in this sense, the words productive and unpro- duc... ...ner already adverted to, is this. The spinning-jenny, and the skill of the cotton spinner, are not only the result of productive labour, but are thems...

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...right hand rode Edward Randolph, our arch-enemy, that “blasted wretch,” as Cotton Mather calls him, who achieved the down- fall of our ancient governm... ...er’s Falls, which, as everybody knows, is as thriv- ing a village as three cotton factories and a slitting mill can make it. The machinery was not in ... ...g part owner of the slitting mill, and a considerable stock- holder in the cotton factories. The inhabitants felt their own prosperity interested in h... ... such a terrible loquacity as more than compensated for the silence of the cotton machines, which refrained from their usual din out of respect to the... ...g his head upon some shirts and a pair of pantaloons, tied up in a striped cotton handkerchief. The sunbeams could not reach him; the dust did not yet... ... character of Edward Randolph, too implicit credence has been given to Dr. Cotton Mather, who—I must say it, though some of his 144 Twice Told Tales ...

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...ot-grass, comfoly and quinces; a drachm of camphor; dip a piece of silk or cotton into it and apply it to the place. Take half an ounce each of oil of... ...hat follows cutting the navel-string. As soon as it is cut, apply a little cotton or lint to the place to keep it warm, lest the cold enter into the b... ...st certainly will do, if you have not bound it hard enough. If the lint or cotton you apply to it, be dipped in oil of roses, it will be the better, a... ...es every night, and then wrap a piece of white baise about your veins, the cotton side next to the skin and keep the same always to it. But above all,...

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...e of most occu- pations, of coal-mining or engineering, or brick-laying or cotton-spinning. The thing has never been properly thought about. Our civil... ...ll-eyed little boy of no ascertainable relationship…. In the worst days of cotton-milling in England the condi- tions were hardly worse than those now...

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...e eyes of foresighted American business men; the growing trade in American cotton and other goods in that country will be a subordinate consideration ...

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...re with dingy-green broken panes, through which I caught a glimpse of pink cotton curtains. I crossed the road, went up to the house, and read on an i... ...ena’s size approximately, and she instantly picked me out a light-coloured cotton dress priced extremely cheaply , though it was quite strong and had ...