A treatise on the propagation of sheep, the manufacture of wool, and the cultivation and manufacture of flax, with directions for making several... (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"As it is customary for the smallest Pamphlets to have a Preface to recommend them to the Publick, I suppose it will be expected there should be one to this, though I am of Opinion it needs no other Recommendation than the present Circumstances of the Generality of the Inhabitants, in this Colony, who are more in Debt than they can possibly raise Money to discharge, our Paper Currency being almost exhausted, little or no Gold or Silver amongst us, Tobacco (our Staple Commodity) of so little Value that it is scarce worth making, and Goods at a higher Price than was ever known in this Colony before. I think this a sufficient Recommendation of these few Sheets to the Publick, and hope it will plead a sufficient Excuse for my undertaking a Task which I must acknowledge myself incapable of in Regard to penning it in a grammatical and methodical Form; but as it is intended chiefly for the Benefit of the common and poorer Sort of People, I hope the Learned will not condemn it, but lend their kind Assistance to the publishing a better Piece on the same Subject, for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures amongst us: For as we have got in Debt by our Indolence and Extravagancy, sure there is no better Method to retrieve ourselves than by our Industry and Frugality. And I must believe, and hope, this small Treatise will forward those Manufactures, as I have given the plainest Directions for the Performance of every Operation in each of them; so that a..." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.