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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... printing books was invented . Before that time all books were written by the hand . There were many persons employed to copy out books , but they were very dear , although the copiers had small wages . A Bible was sold for thirty pounds ...
... printing books was invented . Before that time all books were written by the hand . There were many persons employed to copy out books , but they were very dear , although the copiers had small wages . A Bible was sold for thirty pounds ...
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... printed books were required . The old books were multiplied in all countries , and new books were composed by men of talent and learning , because they could then find numerous readers . The printing - press did the work more neatly and ...
... printed books were required . The old books were multiplied in all countries , and new books were composed by men of talent and learning , because they could then find numerous readers . The printing - press did the work more neatly and ...
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... printing , by the few rich , instead of being the guides and comforters , and best friends , of the millions who are now within reach of the benefits and enjoyments which they bestow . The cheapness of production is the great point to ...
... printing , by the few rich , instead of being the guides and comforters , and best friends , of the millions who are now within reach of the benefits and enjoyments which they bestow . The cheapness of production is the great point to ...
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... printed that is , if the closeness and regularity of printing were superseded by the looseness and un- evenness of writing , they would cover two hundred pages , or fifty of the sheets called foolscap , which would cost in the shops ...
... printed that is , if the closeness and regularity of printing were superseded by the looseness and un- evenness of writing , they would cover two hundred pages , or fifty of the sheets called foolscap , which would cost in the shops ...
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... printing- press , ( which is impossible , ) we could not send it to the world as quickly . We can get ten thousand copies of this book printed in a week , by the aid of about twelve compositors and two printing machines , * each * Printing ...
... printing- press , ( which is impossible , ) we could not send it to the world as quickly . We can get ten thousand copies of this book printed in a week , by the aid of about twelve compositors and two printing machines , * each * Printing ...
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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...