 | Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual,...necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner. It is evident that an important crisis for the Cotton Manufacture of Lancashire was now arrived. It... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 424 pages
...six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual,...necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner." It was natural, in this state of things, that attempts should be made to contrive some method of spinning... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 852 pages
...six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and, when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual,...necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner. It is evident that an important crisis for the cotton manufacture of Lancashire was now arrived. It... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and, when he wi-hed to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new...necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner. It is evident that an important crisis for the cotton manufacture of Lancashire was now arrived. It... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual,...necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner." It was natural, in this state of things, that attempts should be made to contrive some method of spinning... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 312 pages
...six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon or a gown was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner." This check existing on the industry... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 656 pages
...six spinners, before be could collect weft to serre him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or a gown, was necessary, to quicken the exertions of the spinner/' p. 1 2. * In the first print of Hogarth's... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 492 pages
...six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon or a gown was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner." This check existing on the industry... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual,...necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner." In this state of things James Hargraves, a Blackburn carpenter, constructed a machine which enabled... | |
 | Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual,...necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner." It was natural, in this state of things, that attempts should be made to contrive some method of spinning... | |
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It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual,... 
