Knowledge is PowerBell and Daldy, 1866 - 426 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 70
Page 6
... Twenty beau- tiful Engravings . Hunt's ( Leigh ) Book for a Corner . Eighty extremely beautiful Engravings . India , Pictorial , Descriptive , and Historical , from the Earliest Times to the Present . Upwards of 100 fine Engravings on ...
... Twenty beau- tiful Engravings . Hunt's ( Leigh ) Book for a Corner . Eighty extremely beautiful Engravings . India , Pictorial , Descriptive , and Historical , from the Earliest Times to the Present . Upwards of 100 fine Engravings on ...
Page xvi
... twenty years ago , was in this state for a fortnight , and his sufferings may furnish some idea of the greater miseries of a continuance in such a powerless condition . Having fallen asleep in the woods of the north- west of America ...
... twenty years ago , was in this state for a fortnight , and his sufferings may furnish some idea of the greater miseries of a continuance in such a powerless condition . Having fallen asleep in the woods of the north- west of America ...
Page 85
... twenty thousand hospitals for lepers in Europe . The slow accumulation of capital in the early stages of the civilization of a country is in a great measure caused by the indisposition of the people to unite for a common good in public ...
... twenty thousand hospitals for lepers in Europe . The slow accumulation of capital in the early stages of the civilization of a country is in a great measure caused by the indisposition of the people to unite for a common good in public ...
Page 104
... twenty years before that time they could readily earn a pound a week by the same industry ; and that as power- loom weaving had increased , the distress of the hand - weavers also had increased in the same proportion . The Committee ...
... twenty years before that time they could readily earn a pound a week by the same industry ; and that as power- loom weaving had increased , the distress of the hand - weavers also had increased in the same proportion . The Committee ...
Page 123
... twenty - nine millions are held to be cultivated . It is further estimated that four million more acres are capable of cultivation . The history of cultivation in Great Britain is full of instruction as regards the inefficiency of mere ...
... twenty - nine millions are held to be cultivated . It is further estimated that four million more acres are capable of cultivation . The history of cultivation in Great Britain is full of instruction as regards the inefficiency of mere ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accumulation agricultural Alexander Selkirk amongst amount applied called capital and labour capitalist carried century cheap civilized cloth coal Colchester colour comforts commerce common condition consumed consumption contrivances cost cotton cultivation demand diminished direction division of labour domestic duction Edition effect Electric Telegraph employed England English Engravings evil exchange exist Females glass Gregory King gutta percha hand houses hundred improvement increase Indians industry invention iron knowledge land laws London machine machinery manual labour manufacture material mechanical ment millions morocco nations natural obtain occupations operation P. L. SIMMONDS perfect persons plough political economy poor population Portrait possessed pounds principle produce profitable labour QUESTIONS UPON CHAPTER result saving says servants shillings silk skill society STANDARD LIBRARY sumers supply thing thousand tion town trade Translated unprofitable vols WILLIAM HAZLITT wood wool workmen
Popular passages
Page 6 - CRUIKSHANK'S Three Courses and a Dessert; comprising three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal ; and a Melange.
Page 200 - To where Fleet-ditch with disemboguing streams Rolls the large tribute of dead dogs to Thames, The king of dykes ! than whom no sluice of mud With deeper sable blots the silver flood.
Page 6 - Bonomi's Nineveh and its Palaces. New Edition, revised and considerably enlarged, both in matter and Plates, including a Full Account of the Assyrian Sculptures recently added to the National Collection. Upwards of 300 Engravings.
Page 164 - The manner of the carriage is by laying rails of timber from the colliery down to the river, exactly straight and parallel ; and bulky carts are made with four rowlets fitting these rails ; whereby the carriage is so easy that one horse will draw down four or five chaldron of coals, and is an immense benefit to the coal merchants.
Page 155 - Thou didst swear to me upon a parcel-gilt goblet, sitting in my Dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-coal fire, upon Wednesday in Wheeson week, when the prince broke thy head for liking his father to a singingman of Windsor, thou didst swear to me then, as I was washing thy wound, to marry me and make me my lady thy wife.
Page 1 - Translated. In 2 vols. History of Christian Dogmas. Translated. In 2 vols. — ^— Christian Life in the Early and Middle Ages, including his