Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital, and SkillGould and Lincoln, 1856 - 503 sider |
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Side 14
... amount of labor , properly directed , produces a certain gain , and that gain or its representative , money , will produce in exchange the luxuries and necessities of life ; beyond this few seek to inquire or to comprehend those laws ...
... amount of labor , properly directed , produces a certain gain , and that gain or its representative , money , will produce in exchange the luxuries and necessities of life ; beyond this few seek to inquire or to comprehend those laws ...
Side 23
... amount of skill and knowl- edge is requisite ; but before any production can take place , the existence of capital is essential . In short , without capital there can be no production , consequently no profitable labor , since we can ...
... amount of skill and knowl- edge is requisite ; but before any production can take place , the existence of capital is essential . In short , without capital there can be no production , consequently no profitable labor , since we can ...
Side 32
... amount and nature of their labor to the exigences of particular cases . Bees transported from Europe to Bermuda omitted , after the experience of one season , to make the annual provision for the winter ; and laying aside their habits ...
... amount and nature of their labor to the exigences of particular cases . Bees transported from Europe to Bermuda omitted , after the experience of one season , to make the annual provision for the winter ; and laying aside their habits ...
Side 40
... amounts only to a re- straint upon his brute power of doing injury to his fellow- men : and for this sacrifice , in itself the cause of the highest individual and therefore general good , he obtains that do- minion over every other ...
... amounts only to a re- straint upon his brute power of doing injury to his fellow- men : and for this sacrifice , in itself the cause of the highest individual and therefore general good , he obtains that do- minion over every other ...
Side 64
... amount of money vested to the account of depositors in seventy - three of the savings - banks of Massa- chusetts , was $ 27,296,216 - paying an annual interest of more than a million of dollars . The statistics of Great Brit- ain inform ...
... amount of money vested to the account of depositors in seventy - three of the savings - banks of Massa- chusetts , was $ 27,296,216 - paying an annual interest of more than a million of dollars . The statistics of Great Brit- ain inform ...
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Side 234 - 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 merchants.
Side 405 - 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 281 - 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 189 - Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Side 23 - 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 264 - 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.
Side 119 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Side 137 - One thynge I muche notyd in the hawle of Bolton, how chimeneys were conveyed by tunnells made on the syds of the walls betwyxt the lights in the hawle, and by this means, and by no covers, is the smoke of the harthe in the hawle wonder strangely conveyed.
Side 416 - The proprietors of lands keep great part of them in their own hands for sheep-pasture; and there are thousands of poor wretches who think themselves blessed, if they can obtain a hut worse than the squire's dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potatoplantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable, than to behold wretches starving in the midst of plenty!
Side 338 - And as the fashions be rare and strange, so is the stuff whereof their hats be made divers also ; for some are of silk, some of velvet, some of...