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By the same Authoress , CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY ; comprehending the Elements of Botany , with their Application to Agriculture . I vol . fcap . 8vo . with Plates , 3d Edii . revised , 93. cloih letlered .
By the same Authoress , CONVERSATIONS ON VEGETABLE PHYSIOLOGY ; comprehending the Elements of Botany , with their Application to Agriculture . I vol . fcap . 8vo . with Plates , 3d Edii . revised , 93. cloih letlered .
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Page 63 - One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct...
Page 63 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently...
Page 62 - But in the way in which this business is 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.
Page 142 - And while he sinks without one arm to save, The country blooms — a garden and a grave ! Where then, ah ! where shall poverty reside, To 'scape the pressure of contiguous pride? If to some common's fenceless limits stray'd, He drives his flock to pick the scanty blade, Those fenceless fields the sons of wealth divide, And e'en the bare-worn common is denied.
Page 392 - The man of wealth and pride Takes up a space that many poor supplied; Space for his lake, his park's extended bounds, Space for his horses, equipage, and hounds; The robe that wraps his limbs in silken sloth Has robb'd the neighbouring fields of half their growth; His seat, where solitary sports are seen, Indignant spurns the cottage from the green...
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