Early lessons, Band 3R. Hunter, 1829 |
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Seite 42 - I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.
Seite 83 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Seite xxii - ... the discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, very much diminished the trade of A.
Seite 280 - I do not like you, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know full well, I do not like you, Doctor Fell.
Seite 218 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Seite 43 - ... perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth, part of what they are at present capable of performing, in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
Seite 42 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Seite 213 - Oh, mamma, if I had known all this ! Now I do know all this, how differently I feel ! How unjust, how foolish, to dislike her ! And for a pinch in a black bonnet ! And for that very scar ! — that very hand ! — Mamma, I would not draw back my hand if she were to offer to shake hands -with me now.
Seite 46 - Frank thanked his mother, and he looked over all the prints in the four volumes of this book. He looked at each print carefully, and examined every thing in it before he turned over the leaf to look for another. He was pleased with the print of the chandler making candles ; and of the shoemaker making shoes ; and of the turner turning at his lathe ; and of the ropemaker making ropes ; and of the weaver working at his loom. After he had looked at these prints, he read some of the explanations and...
Seite 40 - And this," added he, turning to Edward, " this is what is called the division of labour." " In making this pin," continued he, taking a pin from Frank's mother — "in making a pin, eighteen different workmen are employed. In a manufactory for making pins, each workman does that part which he can do best.