Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital, and SkillGould & Lincoln, 1856 - 503 lappuses |
Citi izdevumi - Skatīt visu
Bieži izmantoti vārdi un frāzes
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
Populāri fragmenti
138. lappuse - 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.
171. lappuse - Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
407. lappuse - 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.
91. lappuse - 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.
443. lappuse - 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...
ix. lappuse - 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.
216. lappuse - 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.
263. lappuse - 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.
209. lappuse - 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...
246. lappuse - 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.