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 13
... once what may be seen every day . " This remark is particularly applicable to those branches of knowledge which relate to , and are intimately connected with , the pursuits of every - day life - to the various occupa- tions and ...
... once what may be seen every day . " This remark is particularly applicable to those branches of knowledge which relate to , and are intimately connected with , the pursuits of every - day life - to the various occupa- tions and ...
Side 38
... once established , and the right of the possessor to dispose of his own as he will being acknowledged , labor begins to work profitably , for it works with exchange . If the principle of appropriation were not acted upon at all , there ...
... once established , and the right of the possessor to dispose of his own as he will being acknowledged , labor begins to work profitably , for it works with exchange . If the principle of appropriation were not acted upon at all , there ...
Side 41
... once more a subject . It was 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 ...
... once more a subject . It was 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 ...
Side 48
... once have ceased had there been any cultivation - that if a large num- ber of these Indians assembled together to co - operate in their hunting expeditions , they were very soon dispersed by the urgent desire of satisfying hunger ...
... once have ceased had there been any cultivation - that if a large num- ber of these Indians assembled together to co - operate in their hunting expeditions , they were very soon dispersed by the urgent desire of satisfying hunger ...
Side 58
... once shows us that the great blessing of the civilized state is its increase of the powers of production . Here we see the Indians , surrounded on all sides by wild animals whose skins might be made into garments , reduced to the ...
... once shows us that the great blessing of the civilized state is its increase of the powers of production . Here we see the Indians , surrounded on all sides by wild animals whose skins might be made into garments , reduced to the ...
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accumulation Adam Smith agriculture Alexander Selkirk 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 labor dollars effect electric telegraph employed enabled England English exchange existence glass hand horses houses human hundred improvement increased Indians individual industry invention iron knife knowledge land laws less machine machinery manufacture material means meat mechanical ment metal miles millions Mosquito Indian nations natural necessary obtain operation perfect persons plow poor population possess pounds principle produce profitable labor rendered roads rude savage says Selkirk shillings ship silk skill slavery society soda-ash Statute of Laborers steam-engine sumers supply thing thousand tion tivation town trade United unprofitable wages wants wealth weaver weft wheel wood wool woolen workmen
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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...