Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society, and the Results of Labour, Capital, and SkillGould & Lincoln, 1856 - 503 Seiten |
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accumulation agriculture American amount applied ARNOLD GUYOT Britain called capital capitalist carried cents century cheap civilized classes cloth coal Colchester comforts common condition consumed consumption contrivance cost cotton cultivation demand direction division of labor effect electric telegraph employed employment enabled England English exchange existence give glass hand horses houses HUGH MILLER human hundred Illustrations improvement increased Indians individual industry interest invention iron knowledge land laws less London machine machinery manufacture material mechanical ment metal miles millions Mosquito Indian nations natural obtain Old Red Sandstone operation perfect persons plow poor population possess pounds present principle produce profitable labor Puritan Recorder rendered roads says shillings skill society soda-ash Statute of Laborers steam-engine supply thing thousand tion town trade United wages wealth weft wheel wool woolen workmen
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Seite 461 - 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...
Seite 425 - Hail wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Seite 227 - Highness's body coach, would have suffered very much, if the nimble boors of Sussex had not frequently poised it, or supported it with their shoulders, from Godalming almost to Petworth, and the nearer we approached the Duke's house the more inaccessible it seemed to be. The last nine miles of the way cost us six hours...
Seite 107 - In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half hung, The floors of plaster, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies...
Seite 107 - Of mimic'd statesmen and their merry king. No wit to flatter left of all his store! No fool to laugh at, which he valued more. There, victor of his health, of fortune, friends, And fame, this lord of useless thousands ends.
Seite 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.
Seite 440 - For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one ; to every man according to his several ability ; and straightway took his journey.
Seite 472 - 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!
Seite 264 - 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.
Seite 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...