 | Maria Edgeworth - 1867 - 246 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But, if they had all wrought separately and independently,...each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin a day ; that is certainly not the two hundred and fortieth part of what they are at present capable... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 356 pages
...ten persons therefore, could make among them upwards of 48,000 pins in a day. (or 4,800 each person) But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...educated to this peculiar business, they certainly would not each of them have made 20, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the 240th,... | |
 | William Lucas Sargant - Economics - 1870 - 406 pages
...ten persons therefore, could make among them upwards of 48,000 pins in a day. (or 4,800 each person) But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...educated to this peculiar business, they certainly would not each of them have made 20, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the 240th,... | |
 | Virginia - 1872 - 750 pages
...striking manner. Ten men working together could make 48,000 pins in a day; but if they had all worked separately and independently, and without any of them...this peculiar business, they certainly could not each have made 20, perhaps not one pin in a day. !Mr. Babbage suggests an illustration still stronger in... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; thai is, certainly,. not the two hundred and fourtieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 556 pages
...of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin, in a day ; that is certainly not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1875 - 546 pages
...of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could riBt each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin, in a day ; that is certainly not the two hundred... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 546 pages
...of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...educated to this peculiar business, they certainly conld not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin, in a day ; that is certainly not the... | |
 | Alfred Bishop Mason, John Joseph Lalor - Economics - 1875 - 92 pages
...forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them being educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps... | |
 | Institute of Bankers (Great Britain) - Banks and banking - 1881 - 742 pages
...fortyeight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently,...to this peculiar business, they certainly could not c>nch of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is i ertainly not the two hundred... | |
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Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if... 
