 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1834 - 692 pages
...in a cotton mill in England are about 10s. and when many power-looms are employed, 12s. XXIII. DIET, DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND MORALS OF THE MANUFACTURING POPULATION....minutes to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea or coffee, with a little bread. Oatmeal porridge is sometimes, but of late rarely used, and chiefly... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Social Science - 1836 - 906 pages
...squalid wretchedness, on meagre food, and expends his superfluous gains in debauchery. " The population employed in the cotton factories rises at five o'clock...minutes, to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea or coffee, with a little bread. Oatmeal porridge is sometimes, but of late rarely used, and chiefly... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - France - 1836 - 352 pages
...squalid wretchedness, on meagre food, and expends his superfluous gains in debauchery. " The population employed in the cotton factories rises at five o'clock...minutes, to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea or coffee, with a little bread. Oatmeal porridge is sometimes, but of late rarely used, and chiefly... | |
 | Medicine, Eclectic - 1837 - 474 pages
...gaze upon the inmates :— "The population employed in the cotton-factories,' continues the Doctor, 'rises at five o'clock in the morning; works in the...minutes, to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea or coffee, with a little bread. Oatmeal porridge is sometimes, but of late rarely, used, and chiefly... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 380 pages
...given of those employed in the cotton factories, by Dr. Kay:— " THE FACTORY SYSTEM.—The population employed in the cotton factories rises at five o'clock...the morning, works in the mills from six till eight, and returns home for half an hour or forty minutes to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea... | |
 | Charles Bray - Cooperation - 1841 - 694 pages
...given of those employed in the cotton factories, by Dr. Kay:" THE FACTORY SYSTEM.—The population employed in the cotton factories rises at five o'clock...the morning, works in the mills from six till eight, aBd returns home for half an hour or forty minutes to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea... | |
 | James Napier Bailey - English literature - 1842 - 270 pages
...less excited by their fatal demoralization. " The population employed in the cotton manufactories, rises at five o'clock in the morning ; works in the...minutes, to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea or coffee, with a little bread. Oatmeal porridge is sometimes but of late rarely used, and chiefly... | |
 | Beverley Tucker - Political science - 1845 - 478 pages
...he, "employed in the cotton factories, rises at five in the morning, works in the mills till six or eight o'clock, and returns home for half an hour or...minutes, to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea or coffee, with a little bread. Oatmeal porridge is sometimes, but of late rarely, used, and chiefly... | |
 | William Johnston - England - 1851 - 376 pages
...for their appreciation. " The population employed in the cotton factories rises," he informs us, " at five o'clock in the morning, works in the mills...minutes to breakfast. This meal generally consists of tea or coffee, with a little bread. Oatmeal porridge is sometimes, but of late rarely used, and chiefly... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Economics - 1852 - 846 pages
...industry, of whom we have an account in the sickening representation that follows:— " The population employed in the cotton factories rises at five o'clock in the morning, works in the mills from six to eight oiclock, and returns home tor half-an-hour or forty minutes, to breakfast. This meal generally... | |
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DOMESTIC ECONOMY AND MORALS OF THE MANUFACTURING POPULATION. "The population," says Dr. Kay, " employed in the cotton factories, rises at five o'clock in the morning, works in the mills from six till eight o'clock, and returns home for half an hour or... 
