Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital, and SkillGould & Lincoln, 1856 - 503 sider |
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Side 14
... better , and in some respects inferior to his fellow - ma- chine that , with muscles of iron and sinews of steel , fashions the rough block into the complicated and irregular gun- stock more accurately and more rapidly than the human ...
... better , and in some respects inferior to his fellow - ma- chine that , with muscles of iron and sinews of steel , fashions the rough block into the complicated and irregular gun- stock more accurately and more rapidly than the human ...
Side 27
... wild fruits . The man would doubtless have perished , unless he had met with some Indians , who knew better how to avail themselves of the spontaneous productions around them . But this is not an instance of the continuance of.
... wild fruits . The man would doubtless have perished , unless he had met with some Indians , who knew better how to avail themselves of the spontaneous productions around them . But this is not an instance of the continuance of.
Side 41
... better for him , he thought , to be surrounded with the regulated power of civilization , than to wield at his own will the uncertain strength of solitary uncivilization . But , had he chosen to remain upon his island , as in after ...
... better for him , he thought , to be surrounded with the regulated power of civilization , than to wield at his own will the uncertain strength of solitary uncivilization . But , had he chosen to remain upon his island , as in after ...
Side 56
... better for the Indians than no exchange ; although we fear that ardent spirits take away from the Indians the greater number of the advantages which would otherwise remain with them . as exchangers . If the Indians had no skins to give ...
... better for the Indians than no exchange ; although we fear that ardent spirits take away from the Indians the greater number of the advantages which would otherwise remain with them . as exchangers . If the Indians had no skins to give ...
Side 59
... better , and less costly , than the garment of moose - skins , he would not have carried on any exchange of the two articles with the traders . The skins of martens and foxes were only valuable to the Indians , without ex- change , for ...
... better , and less costly , than the garment of moose - skins , he would not have carried on any exchange of the two articles with the traders . The skins of martens and foxes were only valuable to the Indians , without ex- change , for ...
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accumulation Adam Smith agriculture Alexander Selkirk American amount animals Britain BRITANNIA BRIDGE capital capitalist carried century cheap civilized cloth coals Colchester comfort common condition consumed consumption contrivance cost cotton cultivation demand direction division of employment division of labor dollars effect electric telegraph employed enabled England English exchange existence give glass hand horses houses HUGH MILLER human hundred improvement increased Indians individual industry invention iron knowledge land laws less London machine machinery manufacture material means ment metal miles millions Mosquito Indian nations natural obtain operation perfect persons plow poor population possess pounds present principle produce profitable labor roads says shillings silk skill society soda-ash Statute of Laborers steam-engine sumers supply thing thousand thread tion trade United unprofitable wages wealth weft wheel wood wool woolen workmen
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Side 138 - And hang their heads with sorrow. Good grows with her; In her days every man shall eat in safety Under his own vine what he plants, and sing The merry songs of peace to all his neighbours.
Side 171 - Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Side 407 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Side 91 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Side 443 - Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages...
Side ix - If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Side 216 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber, from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy, that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchant.
Side 263 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Side 209 - Highness's 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...
Side 246 - So doth the potter sitting at his work, And turning the wheel about with his feet, Who is alway carefully set at his work, And maketh all his work by number; He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace : All these trust to their hands: And every one is wise in his work.