 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1866 - 468 pages
...placed under Owen's superintendence ; and thus, utterly uninstructed, he undertook the whole concern. " I had to purchase the raw material : to make the machines,...machinery; to manufacture the cotton into yarn; to sell it; to keep the accounts; pay the wages ; and, in fact, to take the whole responsibility of the first fine... | |
 | Henry Richard Fox Bourne - Great Britain - 1866 - 476 pages
...placed under Owen's superintendence; and thus, utterly uninstrueted, he undertook the whole concern. " I had to purchase the raw material; to make the machines,...the mill was not nearly filled with machinery ; to manufaeture the cotton into yarn; to sell it; to keep the accounts; pay the wages; and, in faet, to... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Natural selection - 1905 - 512 pages
...Drinkwater did not come to introduce him, and he was simply sent there as the new manager. His business was to purchase the raw material, to make the machines, for the mill was not nearly completed ; to manufacture the yarn, and to sell it; to keep the accounts, pay the wages, and take... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - History - 1905 - 542 pages
...Drinkwater did not come to introduce him, and he was simply sent there as the new manager. His business was to purchase the raw material, to make the machines, for the mill was not nearly completed ; to manufacture the yarn, and to sell it ; to keep the accounts, pay the wages, and take... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Biologists --biography - 1905 - 522 pages
...Drinkwater did not come to introduce him, and he was simply sent there as the new manager. His business was to purchase the raw material, to make the machines, for the mill was not nearly completed ; to manufacture the yarn, and to sell it ; to keep the accounts, pay the wages, and take... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - History - 1905 - 508 pages
...Drinkwater did not come to introduce him, and he was simply sent there as the new manager. His business was to purchase the raw material, to make the machines, for the mill was not nearly completed ; to manufacture the yarn, and to sell it ; to keep the accounts, pay the wages, and take... | |
 | Robert Owen - 1920 - 376 pages
...introduce me to any of the people, — and thus, uninstructed, I had to take the management of the concern. I had to purchase the raw material, — to make the...— and, in fact, to take the whole responsibility of the first fine cotton spinning establishment by machinery that had ever been erected, commenced... | |
 | Robert Owen - Social reformers - 1920 - 374 pages
...introduce me to any of the people, — and thus, uninstructed, I had to take the management of the concern. I had to purchase the raw material, — to make the...— and, in fact, to take the whole responsibility of the first fine cotton spinning establishment by machinery that had ever been erected, commenced... | |
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Drinkwater did not come with me to introduce me to any of the people, — and thus, uninstructed, I had to take the management of the concern. I had to purchase the raw material, — to make the machines, for the mill was not nearly filled with machinery,... 