 England alone, amounts in each year to more than four millions of pounds' weight, for the production of which, myriads upon myriads of silk-worms are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually live and die to supply this little...  The Hand-book of Needlework - Page 46by Miss Lambert (F.) - 1842 - 263 pagesFull view - About this book
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...yet the history of silk cannot perhaps be better concluded than by drawing the reader's attention to the enormous quantity of this material used in England...lowly hut, are indebted for their clothing to the labours of the silkworm. CHAP. IV. TRADE OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES IN SILK. CHINA, F11ANCK, HALT, SICILY,... | |
 | Women - 1831 - 352 pages
...millions of pounds weight, for the production of which, myriads upon myriads of insects arc required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually live and die to supply this little comer of the world with an article of luxury. If astonishment be excited at this fact, let us extend... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner, George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 298 pages
...yet the history of eilk cannot perhaps be better concluded than by drawing the reader's attention to the enormous quantity of this material used in England...into China, and survey the dense population of its widely-spread region, who, from the emperor on his throne to the peasant in the lowly hut, are indebted... | |
 | George Richardson Porter - Sericulture - 1832 - 290 pages
...the reader's attention to the enormous quantity of this material used in England alone, amounting1 in each year to more than four millions of pounds'...into China, and survey the dense population of its widely-spread region, who, from the emperor on his throne to the peasant in the lowly hut, are indebted... | |
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...upon myriads of insects are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually Irff and die to supply this little corner of the world...article of luxury ! If astonishment be excited at this tact, let us extend our view into China) and survey tfe dense population of its widely-spiead region,... | |
 | 1832 - 618 pages
...of insects are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated créatures annually live and die t» supply this little corner of the world with an article of luxury ! If astonishment be excited at tliis fact, let us extend our view into China, and survey the dense population of its widely-spread... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated crea. tures annually live and die to supply this corner of the world with an article of luxury. If...the dense population of its widely spread region, whose inhabitants, from the Emperor on his throne to the peasant in the lowly hut, are indebted for... | |
 | 1833 - 470 pages
...millions of pounds weight, for the production of which myriads upon myriads of insects are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually live and die to supply this corner of the world with an article of luxury! If astonishment be excited at this fact, let us extend... | |
 | 1834 - 536 pages
...creatures annually live and die to supply this little corner of the world with an article of luxury I If astonishment be excited at this fact, let us extend...into China, and survey the dense population of its widelyspread region, whose inhabitants, from the emperor on his throne, to the peasant in the lonely... | |
 | Periodicals - 1835 - 272 pages
...millions of pounds' weight, for the production of which, myriads upon myriads of silk-worms are required. Fourteen thousand millions of animated creatures annually...into China, and survey the dense population of its widelyspread region, whose inhabitants, from the emperor on his throne, to the peasant in the lonely... | |
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