Industrial Society in England Towards the End of the Eighteenth CenturyMacmillan, 1925 - 343 páginas |
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... influence in furnishing the dynamic forces and in determining the direction of progress , was out of all proportion to their numbers and their wealth . These various tendencies and forces enabled the merchant princes to rival in power ...
... influence in furnishing the dynamic forces and in determining the direction of progress , was out of all proportion to their numbers and their wealth . These various tendencies and forces enabled the merchant princes to rival in power ...
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... influence of the new industrial technique on the rise of that other distinctive group of recent times , the employees of the great industrialists . To the toiling masses of the time , as well as to the few who rose into the ranks of the ...
... influence of the new industrial technique on the rise of that other distinctive group of recent times , the employees of the great industrialists . To the toiling masses of the time , as well as to the few who rose into the ranks of the ...
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... influenced the lives of their fellow men as has the work of Pitt or Washington or Napoleon . But the task , however pleasant to contemplate , is impossible to perform . Most of them were humble and obscure , and the boldest and most ...
... influenced the lives of their fellow men as has the work of Pitt or Washington or Napoleon . But the task , however pleasant to contemplate , is impossible to perform . Most of them were humble and obscure , and the boldest and most ...
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... influential , in order to gain prestige and fighting strength , are likely to champion , in formal terms at least , those interests that are of a more general character . This seems to have been the position of the manufacturers who ...
... influential , in order to gain prestige and fighting strength , are likely to champion , in formal terms at least , those interests that are of a more general character . This seems to have been the position of the manufacturers who ...
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... influential position . In any case he was not an inventor in the later sense of the word , though the case seems to have been regarded as a precedent for later action in behalf of inventors . Before 1760 , special grants were rarely ...
... influential position . In any case he was not an inventor in the later sense of the word , though the case seems to have been regarded as a precedent for later action in behalf of inventors . Before 1760 , special grants were rarely ...
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