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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... master and mistress was out dining , and I could play to the servants in the kitchen or the servants ' hall . Sometimes they got up a bit of a dance to my violin . If there was a dance at Christmas at any of the tenants ' , they often ...
... master and mistress was out dining , and I could play to the servants in the kitchen or the servants ' hall . Sometimes they got up a bit of a dance to my violin . If there was a dance at Christmas at any of the tenants ' , they often ...
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... masters " in off - streets and alleys which may be called the tri- the shoemaking trade who supply the large whole ... master I never grudges them myself when I has ' em - so buys lasts to do the slop - snobbing cheap , mostly that it ...
... masters " in off - streets and alleys which may be called the tri- the shoemaking trade who supply the large whole ... master I never grudges them myself when I has ' em - so buys lasts to do the slop - snobbing cheap , mostly that it ...
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... master in Mon- mouth - street now is , I am told , an Irishman ; and the great majority of the workmen are Irishmen also . There were a few Jews and a few cock- neys in this well - known street a year or two back , but now this branch ...
... master in Mon- mouth - street now is , I am told , an Irishman ; and the great majority of the workmen are Irishmen also . There were a few Jews and a few cock- neys in this well - known street a year or two back , but now this branch ...
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... master that he had got the work done in Gray's - inn - lane at 9d . Fut it , however , at 1s . 4d . wages - then , with 4d . and 2d . for the feet and back , we have 1s . 10d . outlay ( the workman finds his own grindery ) , and 8d ...
... master that he had got the work done in Gray's - inn - lane at 9d . Fut it , however , at 1s . 4d . wages - then , with 4d . and 2d . for the feet and back , we have 1s . 10d . outlay ( the workman finds his own grindery ) , and 8d ...
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... master . How often was the room cleaned out , do you say ? Never , sir , never . The refuse of the men's labour was gene- rally burnt , smudged away in the grate , smelling terribly . It would stifle you , though it didn't me , because ...
... master . How often was the room cleaned out , do you say ? Never , sir , never . The refuse of the men's labour was gene- rally burnt , smudged away in the grate , smelling terribly . It would stifle you , though it didn't me , because ...
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Page 303 - 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 303 - 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 335 - 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 303 - ... 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.