 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1880 - 486 pages
...another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It i* •impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that...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.... | |
 | James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...of the time which is lost in passing from one species of work to another. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that...a different place, and with quite different tools. The workman obliged to change his work and his tools continuously, gets into a careless, indolent,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1884 - 604 pages
...another, а тпши greater than U'e should at first view be apt Ic imagine it. It is impossible to past very quickly from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a ditlerent place, :u. . with quite different tools. A country wuivir, who cultivates a small farm, must... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Economics - 1890 - 522 pages
...one species of work to another, and in the change of place, position, and tools. Thus, says Smith, " a country weaver who cultivates a small farm must...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.... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...lost " " in passing from one sort of work to another." " It is," he observes, " impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that...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... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Economics - 1905 - 322 pages
...leisure time. Adam Smith l refers to the country weaver who cultivates a small farm, and objected that he must lose a good deal of time in passing from his loom to his field, and from the field to his loom. But if the weaver is to have any leisure time at all, it... | |
 | John Taylor Peddie - Economics - 1918 - 262 pages
...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, that...and with quite different 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... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Economics - 1919 - 608 pages
...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 that...a different place and with quite different tools. . . . Thirdly and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labor is facilitated and abridged by... | |
 | John Horner - Bedding and Linens - 1920 - 630 pages
...to another, is much greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another that...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,... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Economics - 1920 - 424 pages
...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 that...a different place and with quite different tools. . . . Thirdly and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labor is facilitated and abridged by... | |
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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,... 
