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 60
... cost of so much labor , ac- companied with so much wretchedness , because the labor is so unproductive to the laborers . When the ladies of Eu- rope and the United States are compelled to wear capes of rabbits ' fur instead of sables ...
... cost of so much labor , ac- companied with so much wretchedness , because the labor is so unproductive to the laborers . When the ladies of Eu- rope and the United States are compelled to wear capes of rabbits ' fur instead of sables ...
Side 67
... cost . The people who inhabit such a civilized land have not only the readiest communication with each other by the means of roads and canals , but can trade by the agency of ships with all parts of the world . To carry on their ...
... cost . The people who inhabit such a civilized land have not only the readiest communication with each other by the means of roads and canals , but can trade by the agency of ships with all parts of the world . To carry on their ...
Side 89
... cost of transportation is diminished , the pro- ducer and consumer are brought nearer to each other ; and the profits of both being increased , the amount of their ex- changes increase ; production is every where stimulated , pop-
... cost of transportation is diminished , the pro- ducer and consumer are brought nearer to each other ; and the profits of both being increased , the amount of their ex- changes increase ; production is every where stimulated , pop-
Side 91
... cost - results invariably attended with increased exchanges , increased production and con- sumption , and a rapid increase of the power of accumulation . So long as India , with imperfect machinery for effecting the change of cotton ...
... cost - results invariably attended with increased exchanges , increased production and con- sumption , and a rapid increase of the power of accumulation . So long as India , with imperfect machinery for effecting the change of cotton ...
Side 94
... cost him one hun- dred head of cattle . In the early history of the American colonies , codfish and tobacco were not unfrequently used as a circulating medium . Among all civilized or commercial nations , however , as wants have ...
... cost him one hun- dred head of cattle . In the early history of the American colonies , codfish and tobacco were not unfrequently used as a circulating medium . Among all civilized or commercial nations , however , as wants have ...
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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.