London Labour and the London Poor: Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1851 |
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... dog - collars and dog - chains ( and other chains ) ; gridirons ; razors ; coffee - mills ; lamps ; swords and daggers ; gun and pistol- barrels and locks ( and occasionally the entire weapon ) ; bronze and cast metal figures ; table ...
... dog - collars and dog - chains ( and other chains ) ; gridirons ; razors ; coffee - mills ; lamps ; swords and daggers ; gun and pistol- barrels and locks ( and occasionally the entire weapon ) ; bronze and cast metal figures ; table ...
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... dogs and cats ; and to this part of the subject I shall more especially confine the remarks I have to make . My observations on the uses of other waste articles will be found in another place . The carcass may be briefly termed the four ...
... dogs and cats ; and to this part of the subject I shall more especially confine the remarks I have to make . My observations on the uses of other waste articles will be found in another place . The carcass may be briefly termed the four ...
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... dogs , than a nice piece of ' art , but ven do you see the ' osses ' ' arts on a barrow ? If they don't go to the cats , vere does they go to ? Vy , to the Christians . " I am assured , however , by tradesmen whose interest ( to say ...
... dogs , than a nice piece of ' art , but ven do you see the ' osses ' ' arts on a barrow ? If they don't go to the cats , vere does they go to ? Vy , to the Christians . " I am assured , however , by tradesmen whose interest ( to say ...
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... dogs , and they mostly make up the places for them their selves , and as money ' s an object , why them sort of fancy people buys hinges , and locks , and screws , and hammers , and what they want of me . clever mechanic can turn his ...
... dogs , and they mostly make up the places for them their selves , and as money ' s an object , why them sort of fancy people buys hinges , and locks , and screws , and hammers , and what they want of me . clever mechanic can turn his ...
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Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work Henry Mayhew. SCENE IN PETTICOAT - LANE . THE STREET DOG - SELLER .
Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work Henry Mayhew. SCENE IN PETTICOAT - LANE . THE STREET DOG - SELLER .
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Page 301 - 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.
Page 129 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Page 129 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Page 301 - 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...
Page 62 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Page 129 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 333 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Page 172 - First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.
Page 254 - While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
Page 301 - ... operations, every one of which might be the occupation of a distinct class of workmen. And if there are not seventy classes of work-people in each card manufactory, it is because the division of labour is not carried so far as it might be ; because the same workman is charged with two, three, or four distinct operations. The influence of this distribution of employment is immense.