 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...a journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is able to work. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...only maintain him. while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxious and despQnding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 522 pages
...employed, must not only maintain him while he is idle, but make him some compensation for those anxions and desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1825 - 446 pages
...the time they are necessarily idle ; and they ought also to afford them, as Dr Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1825 - 204 pages
...able not only to maintain them while they are employed, but also while they are idle, and to make them some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. " Hence," says Dr. Smith, " where the daily earnings of the greater number of manufacturers are nearly... | |
 | Samuel Read - Economics - 1829 - 444 pages
...a journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is able to work. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...coal-heavers in out any. What he earns, therefore, while hei London exercise a trade which, in hardship, is employed, must not only maintain him while he is...desponding moments which the thought of so precarious a dirtiness, and disagreeableness, almost equals that of colliers; and, from the unavoidable irregularity... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1849 - 686 pages
...during the time they are necessarily idle ; and they should also afford them, as Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Labor - 1851 - 168 pages
...during the time they are necessarily idle. And they ought also to afford them, as Dr Smith has remarked, some compensation for those anxious and desponding...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. This principle shows the fallacy of the opinion so generally entertained respecting the great earnings... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...a journeyman may be pretty sure of employment almost every day in the year that he is able to work. A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither...so precarious a situation must sometimes occasion. Where the computed earnings of the greater part of manufacturers, accordingly, are nearly upon a level... | |
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A mason or bricklayer, on the contrary, can work neither in hard frost nor in foul weather, and his employment at all other times depends upon the occasional calls of his customers. He is liable, in consequence, to be frequently without any. What he earns,... 
