Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital, and SkillGould & Lincoln, 1856 - 503 sider |
Fra bogen
Resultater 1-5 af 100
Side 43
... carried him back , however incompletely , into the social condition . He acquired a fellow - laborer . He made a boat by his unas- sisted labor ; but he could not launch it . When Friday came , and was henceforth his faithful friend and ...
... carried him back , however incompletely , into the social condition . He acquired a fellow - laborer . He made a boat by his unas- sisted labor ; but he could not launch it . When Friday came , and was henceforth his faithful friend and ...
Side 44
... carried forward their labors with any compensating pro- ductiveness . Imperfect appropriation - that is , an appropriation which respects personal wealth , such as the tools and conveniences J111 ROBINSON CRUSOE .- ( FROM A DESIGN BY ...
... carried forward their labors with any compensating pro- ductiveness . Imperfect appropriation - that is , an appropriation which respects personal wealth , such as the tools and conveniences J111 ROBINSON CRUSOE .- ( FROM A DESIGN BY ...
Side 46
... carried off by a band of these people when he was a little boy , from a settlement on the Ohio river , which was occupied by his father , who was a clergyman . The boy was brought up in all the rude habits of the Indians , and became ...
... carried off by a band of these people when he was a little boy , from a settlement on the Ohio river , which was occupied by his father , who was a clergyman . The boy was brought up in all the rude habits of the Indians , and became ...
Side 53
... any anxiety about their safety . " The Indians even carried the principle of appropriation almost to a division of land ; for each tribe , and sometimes each individual , had an allotted hunting - ground - imperfectly appropriated , in-
... any anxiety about their safety . " The Indians even carried the principle of appropriation almost to a division of land ; for each tribe , and sometimes each individual , had an allotted hunting - ground - imperfectly appropriated , in-
Side 55
... render them the prin- cipal agents in the manufacture of fur , to supply the luxu- ries of another hemisphere . But still the exchange which the hunters carry on with the European traders , imperfect as it is in all cases , and unjust as.
... render them the prin- cipal agents in the manufacture of fur , to supply the luxu- ries of another hemisphere . But still the exchange which the hunters carry on with the European traders , imperfect as it is in all cases , and unjust as.
Andre udgaver - Se alle
Almindelige termer og sætninger
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
Populære passager
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.