Industry & frugality proposed as the surest means to make us a rich and flourishing people , and the linen manufacture recommended as tending to promote these among us. With some cursory reflexions on charity, so far as it regards our distributions to the poor. [Two lines o Latin quotations].

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Textile industry - Massachusetts - Early works to 1800

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Industry & frugality proposed as the surest means to make us a rich and flourishing people , and the linen manufacture recommended as tending to promote these among us. With some cursory reflexions on charity, so far as it regards our distributions to the poor. [Two lines o Latin quotations].