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Political Economy: Its Objects, Uses, and Principles: Considered with ... - Page 243
by Alonzo Potter - 1862 - 318 pages
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The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1

Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...best workman gets the place ; but you will easily conceive, that, in reality, some kind of favoritism must generally decide it. Thus is every man obliged...oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired, the young mechanic is obliged, in the phrase of the country, to wander for three years. For...
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The American Library of Useful Knowledge, Volume 1

Science - 1831 - 336 pages
...best workman gets the place; but you will easily conceive, that, in reality, some kind of favoritism must generally decide it. Thus is every man obliged...oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired, the young mechanic is obliged, in the phrase of the country, to wander for three years. For...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...master-piece, being ofTered to obtain the place of a master workman. Nominally, the best workman gets the place ; but you will easily conceive, that, in reality,...oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired, the young mechanic is obliged, in the phrase of the country, to wander for three years. For...
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The Schoolmaster, and Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, Volumes 1-2

Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...kind of favouritism must generally decid« it. Thus is every man obliged to submit to nil the chance« of a popular election whether he shall be allowed...restraints on journeymen in that country are still rnoru oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired, the young mechanic is obliged,...
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Mechanics' Magazine, and Journal of the Mechanics' Institute, Volume 1

Industrial arts - 1833 - 426 pages
...favoritism mu»t generally decide it. Thus is every man obliged to submit to all the chancee of a po. pular election, whether he shall be allowed to work for his bread ; and that, too, in a coun. try where the people are not permitted to have any agency in choosing their rulers. But the restraints...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 2

Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...best workman gets the place ; but you will easily conceive, that, in reality, some kind of favoritism must generally decide it. Thus is every man obliged...oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired, the young mechanic is obliged, in the phrase of the country, to wander for three years. For...
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The New-York Review, Volume 2

Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - American periodicals - 1838 - 546 pages
...master-piece, being offered to obtain the place of a master- workman. Nominally the best workman gets the place; but you will easily conceive that, in reality,...oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired, the young mechanic is obliged, in the phrase of the country, to WANDER for three years. For...
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The New-York review [ed. by F.L. Hawks]. Wanting no.6,8, Volume 2

Francis Lister Hawks - 1838 - 542 pages
...being offered to obtain the place of a master-workman. Nominally the best workman gets the place; bnt you will easily conceive that, in reality, some kind...people are not permitted to have any agency in choosing tbe'r rulers. But the restraints on journeymen, in that country, are still more oppressive. As soon...
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Importance of Practical Education and Useful Knowledge: Being a Selection ...

Edward Everett - Education - 1840 - 460 pages
...will easily conceive, that, in reality, some kind of favoritism must generally decide the question. Thus is every man obliged to submit to all the chances...oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired, the young mechanic is obliged, in the phrase of the country, to wander, for three years. For...
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The Mechanic's Text-book and Engineer's Pocket Guide: Containing a Concise ...

Thomas Kelt - Mechanical engineering - 1849 - 424 pages
...master-piece, being offered to obtain the place of a master workman. Nominally, the best workman gets the place ; but you will easily conceive, that, in reality,...oppressive. As soon as the years of apprenticeship have expired the young mechanic is obliged, in the phrase of the country, to wander for three years. For...
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