A large variety of materials have been used in their manufacture by different peoples at different times - painted linen and shavings of stained horn by the Egyptians, gold and silver by the Romans, rice-paper by the Chinese, silkworm cocoons in Italy, the plumage of highly coloured birds in South America, wax, small tinted shells, &c. At the beginning of the 8th century the French, who originally learnt the art from the Italians, made great advances in the accuracy of their reproductions, and towards the end of that century the Paris manufacturers enjoyed a world-wide reputation. [Please select]
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Lieutenants are crowned kings; superintendents improvise manufacturers out of themselves. [Please select]
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Le Guide-Michelin--Issued by Michelin et Cie, the tire manufacturers. [Please select]
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--Issued by the manufacturers of Continental tires. [Please select]
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This is the language of English statesmen, manufacturers, and merchants, in Parliament and at cotton associations' debates, and it discloses the truth[661]. [Please select]
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Such a situation seemed bound in the end to result in pressure by the manufacturers for governmental action to secure cotton. [Please select]
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13; in British-American commercial relations, 21, 22; British manufacturers' dependence on, 22; effect of the Civil War on, 55, 246; ii. [Please select]
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In this matter the travelling "scholars" rendered valuable service as manufacturers of genealogical trees. [Please select]
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Millowners and manufacturers build hospitals, schools, savings banks, asylums, and dwellings for their workpeople. [Please select]
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"All that is unjust," they say; "no one forces the people to work for the landowners and manufacturers." [Please select]
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The French manufacturers had for some time successfully imitated the Indian fabric, but could not impart the odor. [Please select]
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