 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...the country. A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two iiK'ii and drawn by eight horfes, in about fix weeks time carries and brings back between London...Edinburgh near four ton weight of goods. In about the fame time a fhip navigated by fix or eight men, and failing between the ports of London and Leith,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...of the country. A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight horfes, in about fix weeks time carries and brings back between London...Edinburgh near four ton weight of goods. In about the feme time a fhip navigated by fix or eight men, and failing between the ports of London and Leith,... | |
 | Ireland - 1800 - 582 pages
...broad wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight horfes, in about fix weeks time, car ties ''and' brings back between London and Edinburgh near four ton weight of « goods goods : and that in about the fame time, a fhip navigated by fix or eight men, and failing be« tween... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...that those improvements extend themselves to the inland parts of the country. A broad- wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight horses, in...London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore, by the help of water-carriage, can carry... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...of the country. A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight horfes, in about fix weeks time carries and brings back between London...Edinburgh near four ton weight of goods. In about the fame time a fhip navigated by fix or eight men, and failing between the ports of London and Leith,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 530 pages
...of the country. A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight horfes, in about fix weeks time carries and brings back between London...Edinburgh near four ton weight of goods. In about the p fame time a fhip navigated by fix or eight men, and failing between the ports of London and Leith,... | |
 | Charles Putt - Jurisprudence - 1830 - 496 pages
...thought that they should never be made the property of private persons.f * " A broad wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight horses, in...London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men therefore, by the help of water carriage, can carry... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...inland parts of the country. A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two men, and drawn by eight hontes, in about six weeks time, carries and brings back between...London and Leith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore, by the help of water-carriage, can carry... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...that those improvements extend themselves to the inland parts of the country. A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two men and drawn by eight horses, in...eight men, and sailing between the ports of London and Lcith, frequently carries and brings back two hundred ton weight of goods. Six or eight men, therefore,... | |
 | James Parton - Civilization - 1871 - 730 pages
...except where Nature herself had made them good. "A broad-wheeled wagon," wrote Adam Smith, in 1774, "attended by two men, and drawn by eight horses, in...carries and brings back, between London and Edinburgh (404 miles), near four ton weight of goods." Dr. Franklin, writing in 1751, speaks of travelling seventy... | |
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A broad-wheeled waggon, attended by two men and drawn by eight horses, in about six weeks' time carries and brings back between London and Edinburgh near four ton weight of goods. In about the same time a ship navigated by six or eight men, and sailing... 
