 | Tobias Smollett - 1776 - 526 pages
...make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this bufiiiefs is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into 3 number of branches, of which the greater part are likewife peculiar trades. One man draws out the... | |
 | George Adams - 1794 - 606 pages
...make twenty pins in a day. But in the way which this bufinefs is now carried on, not only the it'hole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewife peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another ftraitens it, a third cuts it, a fourth... | |
 | George Adams - 1794 - 540 pages
...twenty pins in a day. But in the way which this bufinefs is now carried on, not only the ivbole ta-ork is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewife peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another ftraitens it, a third cuts it, a fourth... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - 1799 - 852 pages
...day, and certainly could not twenty. — But in the way in which this bufinefs is now carried on, i)ot only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewife peculiar trades. — One man draws out tbt wire, another Jlraighti it, a third cuts it, a... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - 1807 - 506 pages
...and skewers, for fastening cloaths. In manufacturing pins in England, one man draws out the vrire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for rcccivinij the head: to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a... | |
 | John Evans - 1807 - 318 pages
...taking an example from a very trifling manufacture ; namely, the trade of a pinmaker. This business is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are pe» culiar trades. Oue man draws out the wire ; II 6 another straightens it ; a third cuts it ; a... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 582 pages
...make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this bufinefs is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewife peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another ftraights it, a third cuts it, a fourth... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812 - 520 pages
...make one pin in a day, and certainly could not make twenty. But in the way in which this bufinefs is now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewife peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another ftraights it, a third cuts it, a fourth... | |
 | Adam Smith - 1812
...not make twenty. But in the way in which this bufinefs is now carried on, not only the whole \vork is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewife peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another ftraights it, a third cuts it, £ fourth... | |
 | Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney - 1814 - 526 pages
...one pin in a day, and certainly " could not make twenty ; but, in the way " in which the business is now carried on, " not only the whole work is a peculiar " trade, but it is divided into a nuni" her of branches, of which the great" er part are likewise peculiar trades. " One " One man draws... | |
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But in the way in which this business in now carried on, not only the whole work is a peculiar trade, but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it,... 
