Art and Industry: As Represented in the Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, New York--1853-4 : Showing the Progress and State of the Various Useful and Esthetic PursuitsHorace Greeley Redfield, 1853 - 386 pages "Chapter XVII Daguerreotypes, pages 171-77. Remarks on the display of Fitsgibbons which includes electrotypes from daguerreotypes and notes that printing plates can be made from them that result in prints resembling mezzotints." --Hanson Catalog, p. 14. |
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Page xvi - WE praise thee, O God; we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee, the Father everlasting. To thee, all Angels cry aloud; the Heavens, and all the Powers therein. To thee, Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Sabaoth; Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy Glory.
Page xvii - ALMIGHTY God, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking ; We beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities; and those things, which for our un worthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us, for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page xvii - ... through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings, with thy most gracious favor, and further us with thy continual help ; that in all our works, begun, continued, and ended ID thee, we may glorify thy holy name, and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Page 76 - Who, when he saw the first sand or ashes, by a casual intenseness of heat, melted into a metalline form, rugged with excrescences, and clouded with impurities, would have imagined, that in this shapeless lump lay concealed so many conveniences of life, as would in time constitute a great part of the happiness of the world...
Page xvi - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands ; and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page xvii - Council, and to all that are put in authority under her, that they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to the maintenance of thy true religion and virtue. Give grace, O heavenly Father, to all Bishops and Curates, that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively Word, and rightly and duly administer thy holy Sacraments...
Page xvi - We render thee thanks for the goodly heritage which thou hast given us ; for the civil and religious privileges which we enjoy ; and for the multiplied manifestations of thy favor towards us.
Page xvii - Most heartily we beseech thee, with thy favour to behold and bless thy servant The President of the United States, and all others in authority; and so replenish them with the grace of thy Holy Spirit, that they may always incline to thy will, and walk in thy way.
Page 137 - ... which are dyed any dark color, so as to hide the various colors of the old fabrics. It is mixed in with new wool in such proportion as its quality •will permit without deteriorating the sale of the material. The mungo is used in nearly all the Yorkshire superfine cloths, and in some very extensively. It produces a cloth somewhat inferior, of course, to the West of England goods in durability, but for finish and appearance, when first made up, the inferiority would only be perceived by a good...
Page 24 - ... the attainments of the generations that have passed away ? It is this : that in our discoveries in science, by our applications of those discoveries to practical art, by the enormous increase of mechanical power consequent upon mechanical invention, we have universalized all the beautiful and glorious results of industry and skill...