The Modern Factory System: By R. Whately Cooke TaylorK. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1891 - 476 pages |
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... common land still unenclosed . Taking a period just before the beginning of the eighteenth century , and two periods during its progress , we have the following statements on this head : " Gregory King , who rather overestimated the ...
... common land still unenclosed . Taking a period just before the beginning of the eighteenth century , and two periods during its progress , we have the following statements on this head : " Gregory King , who rather overestimated the ...
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... common land were enclosed between 1710 and 1760 , whilst nearly 7,000,000 were enclosed between 1760 and 1843.1 The effect of so vast an absorption of common rights was either to drive the poorer cultivators from the soil or greatly to ...
... common land were enclosed between 1710 and 1760 , whilst nearly 7,000,000 were enclosed between 1760 and 1843.1 The effect of so vast an absorption of common rights was either to drive the poorer cultivators from the soil or greatly to ...
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... common . Up to hay harvest , indeed , every man had his own plot ; but , while in the arable land the plots rarely changed hands , in the meadows the different shares were apportioned by lot every year . After hay harvest the fences in ...
... common . Up to hay harvest , indeed , every man had his own plot ; but , while in the arable land the plots rarely changed hands , in the meadows the different shares were apportioned by lot every year . After hay harvest the fences in ...
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... common proximity to the Atlantic Ocean , which was thenceforth to be its principal highway . But in the course of the eighteenth century a variety of untoward events which occurred in those countries , 2 and of surprising successes ...
... common proximity to the Atlantic Ocean , which was thenceforth to be its principal highway . But in the course of the eighteenth century a variety of untoward events which occurred in those countries , 2 and of surprising successes ...
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... common language , literature , religion and sentiment ; and the same requirements for whose fulfilment they had been hitherto accustomed to de- pend on us . The war once over , commerce between these countries increased in an ...
... common language , literature , religion and sentiment ; and the same requirements for whose fulfilment they had been hitherto accustomed to de- pend on us . The war once over , commerce between these countries increased in an ...
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Page 76 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin is in this manner divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct hands...
Page 240 - Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles 'feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
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Page 50 - Within one room being large and long There stood two hundred Looms full strong : Two hundred men the truth is so Wrought in these Looms all in a row.
Page 198 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Page 225 - DO ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers, Ere the sorrow comes with years ? They are leaning their young heads against their mothers, And that cannot stop their tears. The young lambs are bleating in the meadows, The young birds are chirping in the nest, The young fawns are playing with the shadows, The young flowers are blowing toward the west : But the young, young children, O my brothers, They are weeping bitterly ! They are weeping in the playtime of the others, In the country of the free.
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