 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1890 - 522 pages
...lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. \Vhen the two trades can be carried on in the same workhouse, the loss of time is, no doubt, much less. Even in this case, however, it is very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools " ; and even " when the two trades can be carried on in the same work-house," the loss of time, though "no doubt much less," is " very considerable," for a "man commonly saunters a little in turning... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1891 - 466 pages
...•Unidentifiable; apparently a newspaper "puff." — ED. t Doubtless an allusion to the sentence, "A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one employment to another," in the "Wealth of Nations," Book i., Chap. i. ; but it refers to manual labor.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1894 - 644 pages
...tools. A country weaver, who cultivates л small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom....this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly snunterg a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1904 - 626 pages
...tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom....workhouse, the loss of time is no doubt much less. Tt is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his... | |
 | Charles Jesse Bullock - Economics - 1905 - 394 pages
.... . necessarily increases very much the dexterity of the workman." Then he pointed out that, since "a man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another," a considerable amount of time is saved when a person confines himself to a single kind of labor. And,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Classical school of economics - 1909 - 1076 pages
...tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom....man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand • " In astronomical observations, the senses of the operator are rendered so acute by habit, that... | |
 | Edward Sherwood Mead - Economics - 1909 - 510 pages
...tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to his loom. When the two trades can be carried on in the same workroom, the loss of time is no doubt much less. It is, even in this case, however, very considerable.... | |
 | John Horner - Bedding and Linens - 1920 - 630 pages
...must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from the field to the loom. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another, and this renders him almost always slothful and lazy, and incapable of any vigorous application even... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1922 - 522 pages
...who cultivates a small farm, must lose deal of time in passing from his loom to the field, and from t to his loom. When the two trades can be carried on in tl workhouse, the loss of time is no doubt much less. It is even case, however, very considerable.... | |
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It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a good deal of time in passing from MB loom to the... 
