 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...Scotland ; in the neighbourhood of great towns, than in remote country places. Some workmen, indeed, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them...the other three. This, however, is by no means the cafe with the greater part. Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1832 - 530 pages
...Scotland; in the neighbourhood of great towns, than in remote country places. Some workmen, indeed, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them...and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years."s SECTION V. Of the Independence aceruing to the Moderns from the Advancement of Industry, THE... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1833 - 654 pages
...crossing the channel he becomes a model of laboriousness and enterprise. Some workmen, indeed, when they earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three : but this is the exception, not the rule. Among the working classes, as among every other class of... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1833 - 674 pages
...crossing the channel he becomes a model of laboriousness and enterprise. Some workmen, indeed, when they earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three : but this is the exception, not the rule. Among the working classes, as among every other class of... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1834 - 556 pages
...Scotland; in the neighbourhood of great towns, than in remote country places. Some workmen, indeed, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them...ruin their health and constitution in a few years."* SECTION V. Of the Independence accruing to the Moderns from the Advancement of Industry. The maxims... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1834 - 692 pages
...crossing the channel he becomes a model of laboriousness and enterprise. Some workmen, indeed, when they earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three : but this is the exception, not the rule. Among the working classes, as among every other class of... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...be exhibited in any other European country. (Princip. Pol. Econ.) Some workmen, says Mr. Wade, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three; but this is the exception, not the rule. Among the working classes, as among every other class of society,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...towns, than in remote country places. Some dustry. That a little more plenty th.. workmen, indeed, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them...through the week, will be idle the other three. This, howncr, /* ìtr no means the case with the greater nary may render some workmen idle. be well doubted... | |
 | Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 638 pages
...the greater number. When workmen are liberally paid by the piece, they are, as Adam Smith remarks, very apt to overwork themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years. This is the case with artificers of several trades, and which renders them subject to some infirmity... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - Economics - 1845 - 506 pages
...Scotland; in the neighbourhood of great towns, than in remote country places. Some workmen, indeed, when they can earn in four days what will maintain them...ruin their health and constitution in a few years."* SECTION V. Of the Independence accruing to the Moderns from the Advancement of Industry. The maxims... | |
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they can earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three. This, however, is by no means the case with the greater part. Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are very apt to over-work... 
