 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...therefore, making atenth part of fortyeight thoafand pins, might be confidered as making four thoufand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thoufand pins, might be confidered as making four thoufand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs,... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thoufand pins, might be confidered as making four thoufand eight hundred pins in a day. — But if they had all wrought feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs,... | |
 | John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...the necessary machinery, can produce forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person may therefore be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day ; but had they wrought separately and independently, the best workman among them could not have made twenty,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four 'thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among' them upwards of for'iy-elght thousand pins in a day. Each person, £her efore^ making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thoufand pins, might be confidered as making four thoufand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 582 pages
...therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thoufand pins, might be confidered as making four thour land eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs,... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1821 - 510 pages
...among them about twelve pounds of " pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of " four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten " persons, therefore, could make among them up" wards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each " person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty"... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore,...making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might he 'considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore,...considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins it) a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having... | |
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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. 
