Early Lessons ...R. Hunter, 1824 |
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66 Mamma 66 Papa afraid answered arithme asked beer began black bonnet boat brother Edward bundle called candle Chart of History child cook cotton cried Frank cried Godfrey dear Rosamond dislike door drawer Egerton entertaining excuses explain father and mother flower pots foolish Frank looked Frank read Frank's father frey garden house give glad hand happy hear heard hole India cabinet instruction laburnum ladder laughed Laura leather maggot manufactory MARIA EDGEWORTH master memory miss Blisset mond mould nautilus never old woman pain parents passage to India pinna pins pods Pompey punishment pupils quarrel reason recollect reward Rosa Rosamond's father rushlights schoolmaster seen shell shoemaker shut shuttlecock silver cup smiled sorry Spermaceti spinning Jennies straw tallow taste tell thatch ther thing tion told took understand wager walk Wheeler wish wrong
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Página 66 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Página xviii - ... the discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, very much diminished the trade of A.
Página 248 - I do not like you, Doctor Fell, The reason why I cannot tell ; But this I know full well, I do not like you, Doctor Fell.
Página 26 - 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 192 - Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
Página 26 - Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of fortyeight 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.
Página 27 - ... 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; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth part of what they are at present capable of performing in consequence of a proper division and combination of their different operations.
Página 148 - I deny," cried Godfrey, laughing. " Whatever I may think, I do not always say you are foolish." " You shall not laugh at me, Godfrey, because I am candid — mamma said so — and I am not always making excuses." " Well, Rosamond, because I am candid, I will acknowledge that you are not always making excuses...
Página 26 - 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.