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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... sold first - hand . I have next to deal with the second - hand sellers of our streets ; and in this division perhaps will be found more that is novel , curious , and interesting , than in that just completed . constitute the staple of ...
... sold first - hand . I have next to deal with the second - hand sellers of our streets ; and in this division perhaps will be found more that is novel , curious , and interesting , than in that just completed . constitute the staple of ...
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... sold the horns , which are worth about 10d . to the comb - makers , who use them to make their " tortoise - shell " articles , and for similar purposes . The hoofs are worth 2d . to the glue- makers , or prussiate of potash ...
... sold the horns , which are worth about 10d . to the comb - makers , who use them to make their " tortoise - shell " articles , and for similar purposes . The hoofs are worth 2d . to the glue- makers , or prussiate of potash ...
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... sold as those of oxen . One houses there are so many lean and sorry jades that 8 lbs . may be taken as an average of fat , and at a value of 6d . per lb. Nor does the list end here ; the dead and putrid flesh is made to teem with life ...
... sold as those of oxen . One houses there are so many lean and sorry jades that 8 lbs . may be taken as an average of fat , and at a value of 6d . per lb. Nor does the list end here ; the dead and putrid flesh is made to teem with life ...
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... sold at the knackers . My informant rea- soned only from analogy , as he had never tasted horse - flesh ; but a great - uncle of his , he told me , had relished it highly in the peninsular war . The uses to which a horse's carcass are ...
... sold at the knackers . My informant rea- soned only from analogy , as he had never tasted horse - flesh ; but a great - uncle of his , he told me , had relished it highly in the peninsular war . The uses to which a horse's carcass are ...
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... sold from a street- barrow . The second - hand metal goods are sold from stalls as well as from barrows , and these stalls are often tended by women whose husbands may be in some other branch of street - commerce . One of these stalls I ...
... sold from a street- barrow . The second - hand metal goods are sold from stalls as well as from barrows , and these stalls are often tended by women whose husbands may be in some other branch of street - commerce . One of these stalls I ...
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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.