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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... century , or rather , could not have been procured at all . You will have more facts on this branch of the subject , in a suc- ceeding chapter . Then there are the tools of every trade . All the working parts of them are made of iron ...
... century , or rather , could not have been procured at all . You will have more facts on this branch of the subject , in a suc- ceeding chapter . Then there are the tools of every trade . All the working parts of them are made of iron ...
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... century . Nearly all the people now engaged in iron - works are supported by the improvements that have been made in it by machinery since 1788. Yes , wholly by the machinery ; for before then the quantity made by the charcoal of wood ...
... century . Nearly all the people now engaged in iron - works are supported by the improvements that have been made in it by machinery since 1788. Yes , wholly by the machinery ; for before then the quantity made by the charcoal of wood ...
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... century , the communication from one dis- trict to another was attended with such difficulty and danger , that some of the counties were excused from sending jurors to the circuit to assist in the adminis- tration of justice . The poor ...
... century , the communication from one dis- trict to another was attended with such difficulty and danger , that some of the counties were excused from sending jurors to the circuit to assist in the adminis- tration of justice . The poor ...
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... century . In 1823 , Mr. Nimmo , the engineer , stated to Parliament , that the fertile plains of Limerick , Cork , and Kerry , were separated from each other by a deserted country , presenting an impassable barrier between them . This ...
... century . In 1823 , Mr. Nimmo , the engineer , stated to Parliament , that the fertile plains of Limerick , Cork , and Kerry , were separated from each other by a deserted country , presenting an impassable barrier between them . This ...
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... centuries ago . Men can exchange their commodities at the best market ; the seller and the buyer are each free to choose their market . If Ireland sends to Liverpool more cattle than Liverpool can consume , they can go upon the rail ...
... centuries ago . Men can exchange their commodities at the best market ; the seller and the buyer are each free to choose their market . If Ireland sends to Liverpool more cattle than Liverpool can consume , they can go upon the rail ...
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الصفحة 189 - 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 229 - ... and thereto a sack of chaff to rest his head upon, he thought himself to be as well lodged as the lord of the lown, so well were they contented. Pillows, said they, were thought meet only for women in child-bed.
الصفحة 229 - ... 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 227 - 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 148 - ... eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, 'These are only the legs and arms; the trunks are below.
الصفحة 98 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
الصفحة 229 - ... 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 99 - ... a mistake, but a benevolent one. It was in the year 1767, as we have mentioned, that Arkwright became acquainted with Kay. In...
الصفحة 228 - ... 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 172 - Lee — who died at Paris of a broken heart. And why did he die of grief and penury ? Because the people of his own days were too ignorant to accept the blessings he had prepared for them. We ask with confidence, had the terror of the stockingframe any real foundation ? Were any people thrown out of employment by the stocking-frame ? " The knitters in the sun, And the free maids who weave their thread with bones...