The Results of Machinery: Namely, Cheap Production and Increased Employment, Exhibited : Being an Address to the Working-men of the United KingdomC. Knight, 1831 - 216 من الصفحات |
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... clothes , and coals , and candles , and soap , and tea , and sugar , and all the many comforts which those who are even the worst off are not wholly deprived of . All this may appear as an extreme state- ment ; and certainly we believe ...
... clothes , and coals , and candles , and soap , and tea , and sugar , and all the many comforts which those who are even the worst off are not wholly deprived of . All this may appear as an extreme state- ment ; and certainly we believe ...
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... clothing . They increase all our comforts , and they consume none themselves . The hand - mills are not grinding , it is true : but the ships are sailing that bring us foreign pro- duce ; the looms are moving that give us more clothes ...
... clothing . They increase all our comforts , and they consume none themselves . The hand - mills are not grinding , it is true : but the ships are sailing that bring us foreign pro- duce ; the looms are moving that give us more clothes ...
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... clothing . The sufferings pro- duced by a want of fuel cannot be estimated by those who have abundance . In Normandy , at the present day , such is the scarcity of wood , that persons engaged in various works of hand , as lace - making ...
... clothing . The sufferings pro- duced by a want of fuel cannot be estimated by those who have abundance . In Normandy , at the present day , such is the scarcity of wood , that persons engaged in various works of hand , as lace - making ...
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... cloths , viz . twenty - three tons , eight hundred weight , and three quarters ; the tender , with water and fuel , four tons ; and of fifteen persons on the train , one ton ; making a total weight of exactly eighty tons , exclusive of ...
... cloths , viz . twenty - three tons , eight hundred weight , and three quarters ; the tender , with water and fuel , four tons ; and of fifteen persons on the train , one ton ; making a total weight of exactly eighty tons , exclusive of ...
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... clothing wretched ; they rarely possessed any tools or implements be- yond a small , ill - shaped spade ; and nearly the whole face of the country was unimproved . Since the completion of the roads , rapid strides have been made ...
... clothing wretched ; they rarely possessed any tools or implements be- yond a small , ill - shaped spade ; and nearly the whole face of the country was unimproved . Since the completion of the roads , rapid strides have been made ...
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agricultural amongst better bookbinders brick Britain capital cheap cheaper chine chinery cloth coal comforts condition consumed contrivances corn cost of production cotton duce employed employment engines England Engravings fifty France furnace give glass greater number hand hand-loom hand-mills Herman Merivale horses houses human labor hundred improvement increased industry ingenuity invention Ireland iron John Conolly John Elliotson Joseph Foster knife knowledge lace Lancashire land Leonard Horner less lessen London machine machinery manufacture material means ment miles mill millions needles number of persons obtain perfect Petworth pins plow ployed pounds pounds sterling power-loom present printing procure produce profitable labor quantity roads rollers shillings society spinning steam-engines stone sumer supply thing Thomas Falconer THOMAS TREDGOLD thousand thread tion trade twenty United Kingdom wages weavers weft wheel windlass wood working-men workman Zachary Macaulay
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الصفحة 166 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things: For no kind of traffic Would I admit; no name of magistrate; Letters should not be known ; riches, poverty, And use of service, none; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none; No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil; No occupation; all men idle, all, And women too, but innocent and pure : No sovereignty— Seb.
الصفحة 202 - Petworth and did not get out of the coaches (save only when we were overturned or stuck fast in the mire) till we arrived at our journey's end. Twas...
الصفحة 103 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
الصفحة 203 - ... servants, if they had any sheet above them, it was well, for seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvas of the pallet and rased their hardened hides.
الصفحة 149 - 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.
الصفحة 80 - ... a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright became acquainted with Kay. In...
الصفحة 202 - ... there are old men yet dwelling in the village where I remain, which have noted three things to be marvellously altered in England within their sound remembrance.
الصفحة 202 - Highness' body coach, would have suffered very much if the nimble boors of Sussex had not frequently poised it or supported it with their shoulders, from Godalming almost to Petworth, and the nearer we approached the Duke's house, the more inaccessible it seemed to be. The last nine miles of the way cost us six hours...
الصفحة 203 - ... as well lodged as the lord of the town : So well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in childbed : As for servants, if they had any sheet above them it was well : For seldom had they any under their bodies to keep them from the pricking straws that ran oft through the canvass, and rased their hardened hides.
الصفحة 126 - I could supply him with dolls' eyes ; and I was foolish enough to feel' half offended. I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer to make dolls