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preservation to the present day by some of those ancient nations, who are considered remaining branches of the earliest kingdoms. invention has always been regarded as the offspring of necessity. its force and progress in manufactures, are in our days precisely the same as in the earliest times,— from articles
cottage. as the intellectual powers derive energy from exercise, we cannot help indulging the conjecture, that the kindling of fires, the baking of bread, the formation of butter and cheese, the working of metals, and the burning of clay into bricks, were practices coeval with the want of these articles...
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partnership with mr. harrison, a tradesman of newcastle, (father of the late mr. john harrison, banker, of stoke,) and at mr. j. aldersea's manufactory, he made diiferent kinds of pottery scratched and blue, then in demand; and probably here began to employ his latent talent for speculation in different articles
; for, mr. h. being unwilling to supply further funds, a separation resulted. he afterwards, in partnership with mr. t. whieldon, manufactured agate hafts, tortoiseshell and mellon table plates, green pickle leaves, and other useful articles; but this was not long continued; for, as mr. whieldon found...
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