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| | Remarks on the Manufacture of Bank Notes, and Other Promises to Pay. Addressed to the Bankers of the Southern ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Perkins, remarkable for skill in mechanics, and deep knowledge, for the time, in the management of steel, its carbonization and decarbonization, had come to the same conclusion as the English artists, viz: the importance of the introduction of the highest development of the commercial art of the day. |
 | | Perkins, and a description of his method of reproducing the finest engravings, and their application, is worthy of another chapter. |
 | | Perkins may be wronged, when the deep thought, the careful analysis, and frequent experiment, is not sufficiently dwelt upon and lauded, for he not only made the egg to stand on its end, but accomplished what the artist world of France and England deemed an impossibility. |
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