The Linen Trade, Ancient and Modern

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Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1867 - Fiber plants - 745 pages
 

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Page 205 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Page 203 - And they did beat the gold into thin plates, and cut it into wires, to work it in the blue, and in the purple, and in the scarlet, and in the fine linen, with cunning work.
Page 114 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, And cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Page 133 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Page 110 - And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked, and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
Page 110 - Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.
Page 130 - And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments ; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
Page 115 - So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Page 120 - LORD's offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it. 25 And all the women that were wise hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, both of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, and of fine linen. 26 And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats
Page 380 - ... than the Irish, who, labouring little in any kind with their hands, have their fingers more supple and soft than other women of the poorer condition among us. And this may certainly be advanced and improved into a great manufacture of linen, so as to beat down the trade both of France and Holland, and draw much of the money which goes from England to those parts upon this occasion into the hands of his Majesty's subjects of Ireland, without crossing any interest of trade in England.

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