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" The habit of sauntering, and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily, acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work and his tools every half hour, and to apply his hand in twenty different ways... "
Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social ... - Page 151
by John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 566 pages
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Voices of the Industrial Revolution: Selected Readings from the Liberal ...

John Bowditch, Clement Ramsland - Communism - 1961 - 210 pages
...and of indolent, careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily, acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...hand in twenty different ways almost every day of his Ufe, renders him almost always slothful and lazy and incapable of any vigorous application even on...
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The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 13

Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 656 pages
...sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...almost always slothful and lazy, and incapable of anv vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions" (Smith, Wealth of Nations, I, 9-10)....
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 1

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 872 pages
...and of Indolent, careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily contracted by every country workman, who is obliged to change his work...half hour, and to apply his hand in twenty different manners almost every day in his life, renders him almost always very slothful and lazy, and incapable,...
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Adam Smith: Critical Assessments, Volume 3

John Cunningham Wood - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 664 pages
...sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...any vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions.5 It is, however, in the third proposition, that invention and mechanization are encouraged...
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The Economic Nature of the Firm: A Reader

Louis Putterman, Randy Kroszner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 404 pages
...and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily, acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions. Independent, therefore, of his deficiency in point of dexterity, this cause alone must always reduce...
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Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions. Independent, therefore, of his deficiency in point of dexterity, this cause alone must always reduce...
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Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to ...

Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 510 pages
...sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions. Independent, therefore, of his deficiency in point of dexterity, this cause alone must always reduce...
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Teachings from the Worldly Philosophy

Robert L. Heilbroner - Business & Economics - 1996 - 376 pages
...sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions. Independent, therefore, of his deficiency in point of dexterity, this cause alone must always reduce...
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Reflections on Commercial Life: An Anthology of Classic Texts from Plato to ...

Patrick Murray - Anthologies - 1997 - 504 pages
...sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...his hand in twenty different ways almost every day ot his life; renders him ahuost always slothful and lazy, and incapable of any vigorous application...
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Modernity: Modernization

Malcolm Waters - History - 1999 - 578 pages
...and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily, acquired by every country workman who is obliged to change his work...vigorous application even on the most pressing occasions. Independent, therefore, of his deficiency in point of dexterity, this cause alone must always reduce...
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