Frank, Volumen1Harper & brothers, 1854 |
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Página 110 - 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 182 - I AM monarch of all I survey, — My right there is none to dispute ; From the center all round to the sea, I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Página 110 - 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 14 - ... the discovery of America, and of the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope, very much diminished the trade of A.
Página 110 - ... 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 51 - Ye painted Moths, your gold-eyed plumage furl, Bow your wide horns, your spiral trunks uncurl; Glitter, ye Glow-worms, on your mossy beds; Descend, ye Spiders, on your lengthen'd threads; Slide here, ye horned Snails, with varnish'd shells; Ye Bee-nymphs, listen in your waxen cells!
Página 94 - I want to know, papa, I do not know which to ask for first. I want to know whether you have ever seen a camel ; and I want to know where silkworms are found, and how they make silk ; and I want to know how people weave linen in a loom, and how the wool of sheep is made into such coats as we have on.
Página 182 - I am lord of the fowl and the brute. 0 solitude ! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, — I start at the sound of my own.
Página 221 - Well, sir, how fares it with my boy ? ' I could make him no reply ; and he immediately attributed my silence to the real cause. He cried bitterly, squeezed me by the hand, and begged me to leave him for one half hour, when he wished to see me again ; and assured me, that I should find him with a different countenance. I punctually complied with his desire : and when I returned to him he appeared perfectly calm and resigned.
Página 220 - Narrative. until he asked me upon my honour, and I had repeated to him my first assurance in the most positive manner. He then immediately became calm ; but on my attempting to enquire into the condition of his wound, he solicitously asked me if I had dressed his father, for he could not think of my touching him before his father's wound had been taken care of. I assured him that the Captain had been already properly attended to.