 | Charles Knight, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...people now in this country, how few are without stockings! What a miserable exception to the comfort of the rest of the people does it appear to you, when...Two centuries ago, not one person in a thousand wore stockings;—one century ago, not one person in five hundred wore them ;—now, not one person in a... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...people now in'this country, how few are without stockings ! What a miserable exception to the comfort of the rest of the people does it appear to you, when you see a beggar in the streets without stockinas ! You consider such a person to be in the lowest stages of want and suffering. Two centuries... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 248
...encouragement ; but civil commotions having arisen, he fell into great distress, and died neglected at Paris. Two centuries ago, not one person in a thousand wore...not one person in five hundred wore them ; — now scarce any one is without them. Who made this great change in the condition of the people of England,... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 306
...their dazzling raiment the princes and the bishops of the Middle Ages. CHAPTER Xin THE CURSE OF MIDAS " Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...now not one person in a thousand is without them." This sentence from The Results of Machinery (1831),1 one of the publications of the Society for the... | |
 | James Gerald Smith - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 652
...the Society far the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge described the first phase in the following words: "Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...now not one person in a thousand is without them." 2 In other words, the first stage was the production of things for mass consumption. "Energy and brains... | |
 | James Gerald Smith - 1927 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge described the first phase in the following words: "Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...them; now not one person in a thousand is without them."2 In other words, the first stage was the production of things for mass consumption. "Energy... | |
 | Carlo M. Cipolla - 2006 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...dazzling raiment the princes and the bishops of the Middle Ages. CHAPTER XIII THE CURSE OF MIDAS " Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...now not one person in a thousand is without them." This sentence from The Results of Machinery (1831),1 one of the publications of the Society for the... | |
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Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore stockings; one century ago not one person in five hundred wore them; now not one person in a thousand is without them. 