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" One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the... "
Popular Political Economy: Four Lectures Delivered at the London Mechanics ... - Page 104
by Thomas Hodgskin - 1827 - 268 pages
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The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 41

Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...pins is another; it is even a trade by itfelf to pat them into the paper; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen diltiiid operations, which in fome manufactories are all performed by diftinft hands, though in others...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...pins is another; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen diftin6t operations, which, in fome manufactories, are all performed by diftinct hands, though in others...
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Lectures on Natural and Experimental Philosophy: Considered in It ..., Volume 3

George Adams - Physics - 1794 - 606 pages
...the pins k another ; it is even a trade by itfelf to put it into paper. And the important bufinefs of making a pin .is in this manner divided into about eighteen diftinil operations, which in fome manufactories are all performed by diftinct hands, though in Others...
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The Politician's Creed

Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...pins is another ; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen diftinft operations, which, in fome manufactories, are all performed by diftinft hands, though in others...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire; another straights it ; a third cuts it ;...about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manu, Factories, are all performed by distinct liahds, though in others the same man will sometimes...
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The Works of Adam Smith: The nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...pins is another; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen diftinct operations, which, in fome manufactories, are all performed by diftin6l hands, though in others...
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The Works of Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S. of London and Edinburgh:: The ...

Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...pins is another ; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen diftinct operations, which, in fome manufactories, are all performed by diftinct hands, though in others...
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Narrative of a Forced Journey Through Spain and France: As a ..., Volume 2

Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney - France - 1814 - 526 pages
...peculiar business, to " whiten the pin is another ; it is even a " trade by itself to put them into paper ; " and the important business of making a pin...divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which are all performed by distinct hands." Chatelleraut was formerly the property of the Comte de Clermont,...
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Conversations on Political Economy: In which the Elements of that Science ...

Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1821 - 510 pages
...the greater part are likewise " peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, " another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth " points it, a fifth...is, " in this manner, divided into about eighteen dis" tinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are " all performed by distinct hands, though...
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System of Shorthand on the Principle of the Association of Ideas

Peregrine Bingham - 1821 - 34 pages
...ON is а реемliar business ; то wAiten THE pins is ANOTHER ; IT is even a trade BY ITSELF то put THEM INTO THE paper ; AND THE important business OF making a pin is, IN -THIS manwer, divided INTO ABOUT eighteen distinci OPERATIONS, WHICH, IN some manufactories, ARE ALL performed...
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