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...Pray, The Cotton Industry...
...attained his tenth year she prophecied that he would become eminent. The first school house Webster ever entered was built of logs, and his first teacher was William Hoyt. The first time that the great statesman ever saw the Constitution of the United States, it was printed upon a cotton handkerchief, according to a fashion of the time, which he chanced to stumble upon in a country store. The evening of the day on which he thus obtained a copy, was wholly devoted to its close and attentive perusal, while seated before a blazing fire and by the side...
...Colonists, but it was soon found that college-bred men were eminently fitted for high offices in both the government of the state and in commercial spheres of life. Among the latter may be ranked the governors, Joseph Dudley, Stoughton and Saltonsdall. John Harvard numbered among his friends John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, fellows and teachers in Emmanuel College, England, also Sims, who lived latterly in Charlestown. There is no portrait or description of John Harvard known to be in existence, but the present statue, the exquisite model in bronze, is an ideal image. But let it be understood that...
...lacking in the language used in the catalogue. A correspondent of the Transcript thus sums up the inconsistency of the translator : "It is positively unpardonable that Ensign Man should stand unchanged, when it can be exactly translated by Signifier Homo. The translator neglects also to turn the given name Cotton into Gossipium, Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into Scriba, Rest into Requies, Kinsman into Consanguineous, Oxenbridge into Bovepons; Greenlief into Viridfolium, etc., and he was doubtless utterly stumped by Nyot, Leverett, Zoheth, Gad, Elbtidge, Epes, Byron and Shearjashub. Many Hebrew names stand unchanged, as Jared...
...Club, reflects great credit upon the president and other members of the club who have been instrumental in starting these lectures. The course has embraced a lecture by Mr. Edward Atkinson upon a topic of interest to all students of political economy, lectures upon the great industries of iron, cotton and woolen, and a lecture by Prof. Laughlin upon the study of Political Economy. The interest which has been shown in these lectures by the large audiences which attended them, must have clearly demonstrated to the club that the efforts have been successful and appreciated. It is in this...