| Tobias Smollett - 1814 - 718 pages
...iniK -;- of children, and the advantages of early employing them in s'.:.(i 1 riiches of manufacture, as they are capable to execute. The extension of schools...object of material importance. If any one would take theti-cub!« to compute the amount of all the earnings of the children who are already educated in... | |
| Samuel Kydd - 1857 - 368 pages
...the second reading of the Labourers' Wages Bill, William Pitt said — " Experience had already shown how much could be done by the industry of children, and the advantage of early employing them in such branches of manufacture as they were capable to execute.... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1887 - 648 pages
...speech on the depressed condition of the labouring classes he observed : ' Experience has already shown how much could be done by the industry of children,...capable to execute. The extension of schools of industry is also an object of material importance. If anyone would take the trouble to compute the amount of... | |
| Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1891 - 556 pages
...second reading of the Labourers' Wages Bill," Pitt spoke as follows : — " Experience has already shown how much could be done by the industry of children, and the advantage of early employing them in such branches of manufacture as they were capable to execute.... | |
| Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - 1914 - 776 pages
...every complaint to which the present partial remedy could be applied. Experience had already shown how much could be done by the industry of children...advantages of early employing them in such branches of manufacture as they are capable to execute. The extension of schools of industry was also an object... | |
| John Lawrence Hammond - 1926 - 306 pages
...to reject Whitbread's Minimum Wage Bill on Feb. 12, 1796, Pitt said: "Experience had already shown how much could be done by the industry of children,...branches of manufactures as they are capable to execute." General Smith, speaking later, said: "As to employing the industry of children, such a measure, however... | |
| Carlo M. Cipolla - 2006 - 346 pages
...Whitbread's Minimum Wage Bill on Feb. 12, 1796, Pitt said: "Experience had already shown how much could bo done by the industry of children, and the advantages...branches of manufactures as they are capable to execute." General Smith, speaking later, said : " As to employing the industry of children, such a measure, however... | |
| Katrina Honeyman - 2007 - 362 pages
...of children was emphasised by William Pitt in 1796, when he wrote that experience has already shown how much could be done by the industry of children, and the advantage of early employing them in such branches of manufacture as they were capable to execute ...... | |
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