 | 1825 - 208 pages
...I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of...floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, ' These are onlv the legs and arms ; the trunks are below,' But I saw enough to convince me that he... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1824 - 726 pages
...thought it derogatory to my new dignity as amanufac* tnrer, to make dolls' eyes. He took me into ft room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of...parts of dolls. He said, there are only the legs and aims, the trunks are bclmv. But I saw enough to convince me that he wanted a great many eyes; and as... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1824 - 512 pages
...dolls* eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, apd perhaps twice the length of thi s, and we bad just room to walk between stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, nf. parts of dolls. He .said, there are only the legs and arms, the trunks are belovr. But I saw enough... | |
 | Charles Knight - Labor - 1831 - 252 pages
...perhaps twice the length M2 of this, (one of the large rooms for Committees in the House of Commons,) and we had just room to walk between stacks, from...floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, ' These are only the legs and arms — the trunks are below.' But I saw enough to convince me that... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Factory system - 1832 - 352 pages
...thought it derogatory to my new " dignity as a manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes. He took " me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the " length...floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He " said, ' These are only the legs and arms ; the trunks " are below." But I saw enough to convince me, that... | |
 | Meteorology - 1832 - 890 pages
...I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer, to make doll's eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of...floor to the cei-ling. of parts of dolls. He said, ' these are only the legs and arras; the trunks are below.' But I saw enough to convince me. that he... | |
 | Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer, to make doiis1 eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of...floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, ' these arc only the legs and arms ; the trunks are below.' Bull saw enough to conv'nce me, that he... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...dignity, as a manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes. He took me into a very large room, and we had just space to walk between stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said, ' These are only the legs and arms; the trunks are below.' But I saw enough to convince me that he... | |
 | Charles Babbage - Calculators - 1846 - 448 pages
...thought it derogatory to my new " dignity as a manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes.- He took " me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the " length...just room to walk between " stacks, from the floor to t'i3 coiling, of parts of dolls. Ho '" said, 'These are only the legs and arms; the trunks " are below.'... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1850 - 216 pages
...of the large rooms for committees in the House of Commons), and we had just room to walk between the stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls. He said these were only the legs and arms, the trunks were below ; but I saw enough to convince me that he... | |
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I thought it derogatory to my new dignity as a manufacturer, to make dolls' eyes. He took me into a room quite as wide, and perhaps twice the length of this, and we had just room to walk between stacks, from the floor to the ceiling, of parts of dolls.... 
