 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1875 - 546 pages
...the human hand could, by those who had never seen them, be supposed capable of acquiring. " Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...another, that is carried on in a different place and quite different tools. A country weaver who cultivates a small farm, must lose a deal of time in passing... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1877 - 260 pages
...(2.) To the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another. A country weaver, who cultivates a small farm, must lose a deal of time in passing from the loom to... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1880 - 486 pages
...the human hand could, by those who had never seen them, be supposed capable of acquiring. Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...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 is carried on in a different... | |
 | James Platt - Economics - 1882 - 242 pages
...nailer. (2) To the saving 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 is earned on in a different place, and with quite different tools. The workman obliged to change his work... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1885 - 626 pages
...dexterity of tlie workman.'1 — ЛЛл* bnnih Bevieto lor January 1019, l>. 81. t Р*&а шcommonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another,...first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to '5ass very quickly from one ks»d of work to another, that is carried on in ,i different place, and... | |
 | Law - 1888 - 684 pages
...pointed out by Adam Smith ? The improvement in the dexterity of the workman, is one; the saving of time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is a second; the greater likelihood of the invention of machinery (and there is a machinery in law as... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...time which is commonly lost " " in passing from one sort of work to another." " It is," he observes, " impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work...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... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1892 - 914 pages
...the human hand could, by those who had never seen them, be supposed capable of acquiring. Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly j from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...the human hand could, by those who had never seen them, be supposed capable of acquiring. Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of *rork to another that is carried on in a different place, and with quite different tools. A country... | |
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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;... 
