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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... cotton , two hundred barrels of flour , sixty - three sacks of oatmeal , and thirty - four sacks of malt , weighing alto- gether fifty - one tons , eleven hundred weight , and one quarter . To this must be added the weight of the wagons ...
... cotton , two hundred barrels of flour , sixty - three sacks of oatmeal , and thirty - four sacks of malt , weighing alto- gether fifty - one tons , eleven hundred weight , and one quarter . To this must be added the weight of the wagons ...
الصفحة 78
... cotton cloth , which Liverpool does not want for America , the pieces will find their way to the small dealers in the ham- lets of Ireland . And there are some men who say that this wonderful communication , the greatest tri- umph of ...
... cotton cloth , which Liverpool does not want for America , the pieces will find their way to the small dealers in the ham- lets of Ireland . And there are some men who say that this wonderful communication , the greatest tri- umph of ...
الصفحة 89
... Cotton , for instance , was cultivated from time immemorial in Hindos- tan , in China , in Persia , and in Egypt . Cotton was a material easily grown and collected ; and the patient industry of the people by whom it was cultivated ...
... Cotton , for instance , was cultivated from time immemorial in Hindos- tan , in China , in Persia , and in Egypt . Cotton was a material easily grown and collected ; and the patient industry of the people by whom it was cultivated ...
الصفحة 90
... cotton exclusively in making up the goods . The warp , or longitudinal threads of the cloth , were of flax , the weft only was of cotton ; for we could not twist it hard enough by hand to serve both purposes . This weft was spun ...
... cotton exclusively in making up the goods . The warp , or longitudinal threads of the cloth , were of flax , the weft only was of cotton ; for we could not twist it hard enough by hand to serve both purposes . This weft was spun ...
الصفحة 91
... cotton goods , of course , were very dear , and there was little variety in them . The cloth made of flax and cotton was called fustian . We still received the calicoes and printed cottons from India . In a country like ours , where men ...
... cotton goods , of course , were very dear , and there was little variety in them . The cloth made of flax and cotton was called fustian . We still received the calicoes and printed cottons from India . In a country like ours , where men ...
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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