Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital, and SkillGould and Lincoln, 1856 - 503 páginas |
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... Britain and the United States , as an eminent London publisher , and as the editor and author of the " Penny Magazine , " " Penny Cyclopedia , " " The Results of Machinery , " and other popular works . The design of " Knowledge is Power ...
... Britain and the United States , as an eminent London publisher , and as the editor and author of the " Penny Magazine , " " Penny Cyclopedia , " " The Results of Machinery , " and other popular works . The design of " Knowledge is Power ...
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... BRITAIN . - IM- PLEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE NOW IN USE . - NUMBER OF AGRICUL- TURALISTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ..... 186 CHAPTER XIV . PRODUCTION OF A KNIFE . - MANUFACTURE OF IRON . - RAISING COAL . -THE HOT - BLAST . - IRON BRIDGES . - ROLLING ...
... BRITAIN . - IM- PLEMENTS OF AGRICULTURE NOW IN USE . - NUMBER OF AGRICUL- TURALISTS IN GREAT BRITAIN ..... 186 CHAPTER XIV . PRODUCTION OF A KNIFE . - MANUFACTURE OF IRON . - RAISING COAL . -THE HOT - BLAST . - IRON BRIDGES . - ROLLING ...
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... Britain , on account of the rage and opposition manifested by the laboring classes against the introduction of mechanical improvements in agriculture . Large bodies of laborers , assembling together , broke to pieces the thrash- ing ...
... Britain , on account of the rage and opposition manifested by the laboring classes against the introduction of mechanical improvements in agriculture . Large bodies of laborers , assembling together , broke to pieces the thrash- ing ...
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... Britain alone produces more cloth each week than the whole popu- lation of the globe could by their unassisted labor produce in the same time , working night and day . This perfection of machinery has been followed by a very great ...
... Britain alone produces more cloth each week than the whole popu- lation of the globe could by their unassisted labor produce in the same time , working night and day . This perfection of machinery has been followed by a very great ...
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... Britain , down to a very recent period . In the life of James Watt , who rendered such essential service to the world by his improvements in the steam - engine , we have an illus- tration , drawn from his own experience , of the nature ...
... Britain , down to a very recent period . In the life of James Watt , who rendered such essential service to the world by his improvements in the steam - engine , we have an illus- tration , drawn from his own experience , of the nature ...
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Página 234 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Página 405 - Because a great part of the people, and especially of workmen and servants, late died of the pestilence, many seeing the necessity of masters, and great scarcity of servants, will not serve unless they may receive excessive wages...
Página 281 - Here strip, my children! here at once leap in, Here prove who best can dash through thick and thin, And who the most in love of dirt excel, Or dark dexterity of groping well.
Página 189 - Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Página 23 - If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
Página 264 - So doth the potter sitting at his work, And turning the wheel about with his feet, Who is alway carefully set at his work, And maketh all his work by number; He fashioneth the clay with his arm, And boweth down his strength before his feet; He applieth himself to lead it over; And he is diligent to make clean the furnace : All these trust to their hands: And every one is wise in his work.
Página 119 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Página 137 - One thynge I muche notyd in the hawle of Bolton, how chimeneys were conveyed by tunnells made on the syds of the walls betwyxt the lights in the hawle, and by this means, and by no covers, is the smoke of the harthe in the hawle wonder strangely conveyed.
Página 416 - The proprietors of lands keep great part of them in their own hands for sheep-pasture; and there are thousands of poor wretches who think themselves blessed, if they can obtain a hut worse than the squire's dog-kennel, and an acre of ground for a potatoplantation, on condition of being as very slaves as any in America. What can be more deplorable, than to behold wretches starving in the midst of plenty!
Página 338 - And as the fashions be rare and strange, so is the stuff whereof their hats be made divers also ; for some are of silk, some of velvet, some of...