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History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain : with a notice of its early history in the East, and in all the quarters of the globe : a description of the great mechanical inventions, which have caused its unexampled extension in Britain, and a view of the present state of the manufacture and the condition of the classes engaged in its several departments (1835)

Baines, Edward, Sir, 1800-1890 · London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, and P. Jackson · leaf 70

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Parcse; Solomon employsupon it the industry of the virtuous woman; to the pre-sent day the distaff is used in India, Egypt, and othercountries; its early use in France is attested by its beingfiguratively mentioned in one of the old constitutionalmaxims of the kingdom;* and our own poets… … * Le royaume de France ne tombe point en quenouillf.— the crown ofFrance never falls to the distaff, i. e. never descends to a woman. Dryden alludesto this saying in the lines— See my royal master murderd,His crown usurpd, a distaff in the throne.t Antiquity Explained, vol. iii. part ii. book v. c.…

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