Industrial Society in England Towards the End of the Eighteenth CenturyMacmillan, 1925 - 343 pages |
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Page 14 - Making of any manner of new Manufactures within this Realm, to the true and first Inventor and Inventors of such Manufactures, which others at the Time of Making such Letters...
Page 40 - ... some one very simple object. It is naturally to be expected, therefore, that some one or other of those who are employed in each particular branch of labour should soon find out easier and readier methods of performing their own particular work, wherever the nature of it admits of such improvement.
Page 40 - I shall only observe, therefore, that the invention of all those machines by which labour is so much facilitated and abridged seems to have been originally owing to the division of labour.
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Page 233 - But the law has upon many occasions attempted to raise the wages of curates, and for the dignity of the church, to oblige .the rectors of parishes to give them more than the wretched maintenance which they themselves might be willing to accept of. And in both...
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Page 67 - Pilkingtons themselves had been put into possession of their neighbours' property for precisely similar reasons, after a previous defeat of the Lancastrian party by the adherents of the house of York. Some remains of the castle existed in relatively recent times. Aikin, in his "Description of the country from thirty " to forty miles round Manchester...
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