 | Edward Sherwood Mead - Economics - 1909 - 510 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...greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine itIt is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to another, that is carried on in a different... | |
 | John Taylor Peddie - Economics - 1918 - 262 pages
...exceeds what the human hand could, by those who had never seen them, be supposed capable of acquiring. " The advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...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
...employment of his life, necessarily increases very much the dexterity of the workman. . . . Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...a different place and with quite different tools. . . . Thirdly and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labor is facilitated and abridged by... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Economics - 1919 - 608 pages
...dexterity of the workman. . . . Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly lost 1n passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater than we shouTcTaTnTSt view be apt to imag1ne 1t. it is imposs1ble to pass very quickly from one kind of work... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Economics - 1920 - 424 pages
...employment of his life, necessarily increases very much the dexterity of the workman. . . . Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...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
...others at the time. Adam Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, writing directly on this subject, says : " The advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...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 is carried on in a different... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Economics - 1924 - 312 pages
...by saving the time commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, is much greater then we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is...a different place and with quite different tools. . . . Thirdly and lastly, everybody must be sensible how much labor is facilitated and abridged by... | |
 | Thomas Nixon Carver - Economics - 1924 - 314 pages
...employment of his life, necessarily increases very much the dexterity of the workman. . . . Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...from one sort of work to another, is much greater then we should at first view be apt to imagine it. It is impossible to pass very quickly from one kind... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1922 - 522 pages
...advantage which is gained by saving th tlme' commonly lost in passing from one sort of work to another, i greater than we should at first view be apt to imagine it impossible to pass very quickly from one kind of work to ยป that is carried on in a different place,... | |
 | Alastair Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, Harold Coffin Syrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1966 - 656 pages
...Wealth of Nations, I, 8-9.) 151. Compare H's remarks with the following statement by Smith: "Secondly, the advantage which is gained by saving the time commonly...different place, and with quite different tools. ... A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another. . . . The... | |
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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;... 
