The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1842-05-19
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IMPORTANT WORK.
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NOW IN TINE COURSE OF PuBLlcA ION
A DICTIONARY OF
Arts, Manufactures, and
Mines,

Containing clear exposition oftheirPrin.
ciples and Practice.
BY ANDREW URE, N. ID r. r.. S., NJ. G s.,
NJ. A. s., Lond. Mem. Acad. N. S. Philad.
s. Phi. Soc. N. Germ Hanoy. Multi, &c.
1nlliS is unsnes,ionably the most popular
- work ofihc kind ever published, and book
admirably adapted 10 the wants Of all classes
oil the community. The following are the i'm
portant objects which the learned author en-
dcavofs 10 accomplish:
LIST To instruct the Manufacturer, Mctallur
gist and Tradesman in the principle Of their
respective processes, as to render them, in re-
atty, the masters Of their business: and, 20
emancipato them from . state OF bondage 10
snch as are two cummonly governed by blind
prejudice and vicions routine.
2sdly. To afford Merchants, Brokers, Dry.
salters, Druggists, and officers the Revenue,
CHARACTERISTIC descriptions OF the commodities
which pass through their hands.
3tdly. BY exhibiting some Of the finest do.
velopemenls Of Chemistry and Physics, 10 lay
open an excellent practical school 10 Students
Of these kindred scienccs.
4thly. To teach Capitalists, who may be de.
sirous Of placing their funds in some produe
tive branch Of Industry, 10 select, judicisusly,
amoung pianSlbie claimants.
5ihiy. To enable gentlemen os the Law 10
become well acquainted with the nature Of
those patent schemes, which are 50 apt 10 give
risc 10 litigation.
6thly. To present to legislators such cl9ar
exposition of the staple manufactures, rs may
dissuade them from enacting laws which OBJ
struct Industry, or cherish one branch Of i, 10
the injury Of many others.
And iasflx n mis- fhe, nnnnraI raanap IN.
tent chiefly on Intellectual Cultivation, views
efmany oflhe noblest achievements of Science,
in cfftcting those grand Transformations of
matter 10 which Great Britain and the United
States owe their permanent wealth. rank and
power among tho nations ofthe cath.
The latest statistics of every important OBJ
iect OF Manufacture are given from the best,
and usually from official authority al the eud
OF each article.
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