London Labour and the London Poor: Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1851 |
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... round numbers say 40,000 individuals . The 30,000 costermongers may be said to include 12,000 men , 6000 women , and 12,000 children . The above numbers comprise the main body of people selling in the London streets ; hence if we assert ...
... round numbers say 40,000 individuals . The 30,000 costermongers may be said to include 12,000 men , 6000 women , and 12,000 children . The above numbers comprise the main body of people selling in the London streets ; hence if we assert ...
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... round numbers at 3,000,000l . sterling , and their clear income at about 1,000,000l . per annum . Hence , we are enabled to perceive the importance of the apparently insignificant traffic of the streets ; for were the street - traders ...
... round numbers at 3,000,000l . sterling , and their clear income at about 1,000,000l . per annum . Hence , we are enabled to perceive the importance of the apparently insignificant traffic of the streets ; for were the street - traders ...
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... round numbers 5,000,000l . a year ; the greater part of the spirit duty , which is 4,350,000l .; the tobacco duty , 4,250,000 .; the sugar duty , 4,500,000l .; and the duty on tea , 5,330,0007 .; making altogether 23,430,000l . , out of ...
... round numbers 5,000,000l . a year ; the greater part of the spirit duty , which is 4,350,000l .; the tobacco duty , 4,250,000 .; the sugar duty , 4,500,000l .; and the duty on tea , 5,330,0007 .; making altogether 23,430,000l . , out of ...
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... round to Bath and Bris- tol , but Bath ' s not what it was once . " Another street - seller told me that , as far as his experience went , Monday night was a better time for the sale of second - hand sheetings , & c . , than Saturday ...
... round to Bath and Bris- tol , but Bath ' s not what it was once . " Another street - seller told me that , as far as his experience went , Monday night was a better time for the sale of second - hand sheetings , & c . , than Saturday ...
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... round the neck . Blue finger - glasses sold very well for use as sugar - basins to the wives of the better - off working - people or small tradesmen . One man , apparently about 40 , who had been in this trade in his youth , and whom I ...
... round the neck . Blue finger - glasses sold very well for use as sugar - basins to the wives of the better - off working - people or small tradesmen . One man , apparently about 40 , who had been in this trade in his youth , and whom I ...
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Página 303 - I have seen a small manufactory of this kind where ten men only were employed and where some of them consequently performed two or three distinct operations. But though they were very poor and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day.
Página 129 - Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. 3 Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men.
Página 129 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten; And if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, Yet is their strength labour and sorrow; For it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Página 303 - 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, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar business, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day...
Página 62 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 129 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep ; in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Página 335 - Fear no more the frown o' the great, Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe, and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.
Página 172 - First, the wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment.
Página 254 - While, on the one hand, industry is limited by capital, so on the other, every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry ; and this without assignable limit.
Página 303 - ... operations, every one of which might be the occupation of a distinct class of workmen. And if there are not seventy classes of work-people in each card manufactory, it is because the division of labour is not carried so far as it might be ; because the same workman is charged with two, three, or four distinct operations. The influence of this distribution of employment is immense.