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A Practical Treatise on Banking - Page 265
by James William Gilbart - 1856 - 723 pages
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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

Charles Babbage - Industrialists - 1832 - 352 pages
...from the division of labour is, that time is always lost in changing from one occupation to another. When the human hand, or the human head, has been for...flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement....
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Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Volume 2

Railroad engineering - 1834 - 434 pages
...labor is, that time is always lost from changing from one occupation to auoth.T. When the human tiand, or the human head, has been for some time occupied...flexibility during their exertion — and those to be put in action, a stiffness during rest — which render« every change slow and unequal in the commencement....
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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

Charles Babbage - Industrial arts - 1835 - 450 pages
...the saving of that portion of time which is always lost in changing from one occupation to another. When the human hand, or the human head, has been for...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement....
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On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures

Charles Babbage - Machinery - 1846 - 982 pages
...which is always lost in changing from one ^ • ^ occupation to another. When the human hand, or jj.-2. the human head, has been for some time occupied in...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and /t ^ unequal in the commencement....
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On production

Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 636 pages
...trifles than applies to good purpose. " When the human hand, or the human head," says Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...flexibility during their exertion, and those to be put in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement....
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 21

Commerce - 1849 - 710 pages
...England signed his name, consisting of seven letters including the initial of bis Christian name, rive thousand three hundred times during eleven working...rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in me commencement A similar result seems to take place in any change of mental exertion ; the attention...
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A Manual of Political Economy

Erasmus Peshine Smith - Economics - 1853 - 284 pages
...to it, and for some time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose." Mr. Babbage remarks, that "when. the human hand or the human head has been for...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement....
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The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources ...

Francis Bowen - Business & Economics - 1856 - 588 pages
...hand from one employment to another." " When the human hand, or the human head," adds Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement....
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The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition: The Resources ...

Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 576 pages
...hand from one employment to another." /" When the human hand, or the human head," adds Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...acquired a flexibility during their exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and unequal in the commencement....
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The Principles of Political Economy Applied to the Condition, the Resources ...

Francis Bowen - Economics - 1859 - 586 pages
...hand from one employment to another." " When the human hand, or the human head," adds Mr. Babbage, " has been for some time occupied in any kind of work,...limbs employed have acquired a flexibility during then- exertion, and those not in action a stiffness during rest, which renders every change slow and...
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