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... skill - both in textile fabrics and in hardware has a high repute in all parts of the globe . English ships traverse the most distant oceans and do the carrying trade for many of our neighbours . Yet all these great developments have ...
... skill - both in textile fabrics and in hardware has a high repute in all parts of the globe . English ships traverse the most distant oceans and do the carrying trade for many of our neighbours . Yet all these great developments have ...
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... skill and energy of human beings , and on the other of appropriate physical conditions for the exercise of these rational powers . We must think of man , and also of his environment , ― the active worker , and the things with and upon ...
... skill and energy of human beings , and on the other of appropriate physical conditions for the exercise of these rational powers . We must think of man , and also of his environment , ― the active worker , and the things with and upon ...
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... skill to available conditions , and many of their schemes have in- volved combined effort , and could not be accomplished by individuals singly and alone . If we are to follow out these conscious efforts , we must try to realise the ...
... skill to available conditions , and many of their schemes have in- volved combined effort , and could not be accomplished by individuals singly and alone . If we are to follow out these conscious efforts , we must try to realise the ...
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... skill in seamanship , and the Northmen were even able to sail up the rivers , and to carry on their depredations in the very heart of the country . The English rallied under Alfred ( 871-901 ) , and after a struggle peace IO Outlines of ...
... skill in seamanship , and the Northmen were even able to sail up the rivers , and to carry on their depredations in the very heart of the country . The English rallied under Alfred ( 871-901 ) , and after a struggle peace IO Outlines of ...
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... skill . Before the age of machinery , success in manufacturing depended on the dexterity , often the inherited dexterity , of artisans . However much Edward III might have desired to improve English workmanship , he could not have done ...
... skill . Before the age of machinery , success in manufacturing depended on the dexterity , often the inherited dexterity , of artisans . However much Edward III might have desired to improve English workmanship , he could not have done ...
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Adam Smith advantage agriculture artisans Bank Bank of England Black Death bullion capital capitalist carried Chapter clothing trade colonies commercial common Company connexion Conquest Corn Law craft-gilds crop Crown Danegeld demand difficulties districts Domesday Book economic Edition Edward Edward III Edward VI effects eighteenth century employment England English Englishmen expedient export factory farming favour fifteenth foreign gave gild merchant Henry VIII History important increased India industry influence interest introduced Ireland king labour land lord machinery manor manufacture ment municipal Norman Norman Conquest obtained organisation Parliament payments period political possible procure progress prosperity realm recognised regulation reign rendered Richard II Roman royal rural secure seems sheep-farming silver similar skill social spinning Statute Statute of Labourers subsistence supply taxation three field system tillage tion towns Tudor villeins vols wages weavers whole wool