 | Adam Smith - 1809 - 372 pages
...condition that the master shall teach him that trade. Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. The arts, which are much superior to common trades, such...long course of instruction. The first invention of such beautiful machines, indeed, and even that of some of the instruments employed in making them,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...tb« idea ire now annex to the word apprentice. Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. The arts, which are much superior to common trades, such...watches, contain no such mystery as to require a long com si- of instruction. In the common mechanic trades, the lessons of a few days might certainly be... | |
 | Joseph Chitty - 1812 - 192 pages
...which he has no immediate prospect of benefit. Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. The arts, which are much superior to common trades, such...long course of instruction. The first invention of such statutes beautiful machines, indeed, and even that of some of the instruments employed in making... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 432 pages
...the idea we now annex to the word apprentice. Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. The arts, which are much superior to common trades, such...mystery as to require a long course of instruction. In the common mechanic trades, the lessons of a few days might certainly be sufficient. The dexterity... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1829 - 638 pages
...of Serjeants, servienies ad legem, Adam Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, b. i, c. 10, maintains that apprenticeships are entirely unnecessary. He says,...beautiful and useful machines, indeed, must, no doubt, liave been the work of deep thought and long time ; but, when both have been fairly invented, and are... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 644 pages
...of serjeants, servientes ad legem. Adam Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, b. i, c. 10, maintains that apprenticeships are entirely unnecessary. He says,...instruction. The first invention of those beautiful aqd useful machines, indeed, must, no doubt, have been the work of deep thought and long time ; but,... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pages
...extended to almost every trade and profession. Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. The arts, which are much superior to common trades, such as those of making clocks nnd watches, contain no such mystery as to require a long course A I» P of instruction. In common... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...condition that the master shall teach him that trade. Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. Tlir arts, which are much superior to common trades, such as those of making clocks and watches, conta n no such mystery as to require a long course of instruction. The first invention of such beautiful... | |
 | 1842 - 678 pages
...and there occur the following passages:— • Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. The arts which are much superior to common trades, such...making clocks and watches, contain no such mystery a» to require a long course of instruction. The first invention of such beautiful machines, indeed,... | |
 | 1845 - 908 pages
...Adam Smith asserts that long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary ; and he affirms that " the arts which are much superior to common trades, such...mystery as to require a long course of instruction." But in this and other passages, he rather underrates the time that is necessary for attaining sufficient... | |
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Long apprenticeships are altogether unnecessary. The arts, which are much superior to common trades, such as those of .making clocks and watches, contain no such mystery as to require a long course of instruction. The first invention of such beautiful... 
