Transactions of the American Institute of the City of New York, Bind 9C. van Benthuysen., 1851 1st-32d 1841-1871/72 issued also as Legislative documents. |
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Side 312 - 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!
Side 222 - And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man ; and he hasted to dress it. And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Side 128 - Air is a mixture of two gases, — oxygen and nitrogen, — in the proportion of one part of the former to four of the latter. Oxygen is the active gas, the feeding and warming gas, the life-giving principle of nature. It has been well named " the great supporter of animal life.
Side 441 - ... much facilitating the after process of bleaching either in yarns or in cloth. 2. That he can also bleach it in the straw at very little additional expense of time or money. 3. That the former tedious and uncertain modes of steeping are superseded by one perfectly certain, with ordinary care. 4. That in consequence of a more complete severance of the fibres from each other, and also from the bark and boon, the process of scutching is effected with half the labor usually employed.
Side 282 - ... in the reign of Edward III, an act of parliament was passed forbidding this excess.
Side 314 - The great danger to our general government is the great southern and northern interests of the continent, being opposed to each other. Look to the votes in congress, and most of them stand divided by the geography of the country, not according to the size of the states.
Side 221 - It may be therefore necessary that he should accompany the ingestion of foreign aliment with foreign condiment Nature is very kind in favouring the growth of those productions which are most likely to answer our local wants. Those climates, for instance, which engender endemic diseases, are in general congenial to the growth of the plants that operate as antidotes to them. But if we go to the East for tea, there is no reason why we should not go to the West for sugar.
Side 440 - Flax-fibre prepared for mixing with silk, and dyed with colors. 11. Flax-fibre mixed with spun silk, and termed by the inventor flax-silk. 12. A sample of yarn produced from the above. 13. Samples of flax-cotton yarn dyed of various -colors.
Side 440 - Flax-straw, prepared according to the new process, adapted for linen manufactures. 3. Sample of long fibre scutched from part of No. 2. 4. Samples of Flax-fibre, adapted for spinning on cotton machinery. 5. Sample of yarn spun on cotton machinery, some from all the above Flax-fibre, others mixed in various proportions with the American cotton ; these mixtures being termed by the inventor Flax-cotton. 6. Samples of Flax-fibre prepared for mixing with wool. 7. Samples of yam produced on ordinary woollen...
Side 165 - Dear sir : I have not had the pleasure of hearing from you for many months, and know not at what point of the new organization of the Am.