The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new (1907)
Blair, Matthew, d. 1908 · Paisley, A. Gardner · leaf 212
er greater than at present. Political power is undoubtedlypassing into the hands of the masses, and it is a question ofthe first importance that it should be intelligently and impar-tially employed. This supreme necessity of the age was clearly foreseen by New Paisley 199 the founders of the thread… … ]Mjl,LS Skaiuxh, 190(j. influence on Paisley has been enormous, and always for good.They have been likened to the Cheerbyle Brothers in NicholasNickleby, and the comparison is a happy one. But there wasa hio-h moral and relioious tone about the Brothers Coats whichDickens has not reproduced.…
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