 | Walter Thom - Aberdeen (Scotland) - 1811 - 742 pages
...employment of his life, ne" ccssarily increases very much the dexterity of the " workman." — Secondly, " The advantage which is " gained by saving the time...than we should at first view be apt to imagine " it ;" and, thirdly, " Labour is facilitated and " abridged by the application of proper machinery," *he... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...2. To the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a deal of time in passing from the loom to... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...making nails and nothing else, and he will make between two and three thousand nails in a day. Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...to another, is much greater than we should at first sight be apt to imagine. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one employment to... | |
 | G. Robertson - Economics - 1830 - 480 pages
...of the duty in the same time. " Secondly, the advantage which is gained by " saving the time that is commonly lost in passing " from one sort of work to another, is much greater " than at first view we should be apt to imagine it." It is not usual for a labourer to pass very quickly... | |
 | William Carpenter - Great Britain - 1833 - 270 pages
...(2.) To the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a deal of time in passing from the loom to... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...what the human hand could, by those who had never them, be supposed capable of acquiring. Secondly, The advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...from one kind of work to another, that is carried cm in a different place, and и ith quite different tools. A country* weaver, who cultivates a small... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 636 pages
...fetching and adjusting his materials, and stowing away these materials and tools, when not in use. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind...that is carried on in a different place, and with different tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing... | |
 | 1842 - 300 pages
...the advantage of subdivision of labour, " the advantage which is gained by saving the time which is commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to...it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one sort of employment to another that is carried on with quite different tools." The bricklayer, for instance,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1842 - 528 pages
...workman, and therefore increases the quantity of work which he can perform in a given time : secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of employment to another, is effected by a judicious division of employments ; thirdly, the invention... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1849 - 638 pages
...others than it deserves. To do full justice to his opinion, I will quote his own exposition of it. " The advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass thousand occupy only an inch. It is the same throughout the commonest processes of manufacture. A child... | |
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Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another;... 
