| Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...are likewife peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another ftraights it, a third cuts it, £ fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires 8 4 two BOOK two or three diflinct operations ; to put it on, is . a peculiar bufinefs, to whiten the... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...fastening clothes. In manufacturing pins in England, one man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a... | |
| Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney - France - 1814 - 526 pages
...divided into a nuni" her of branches, of which the great" er part are likewise peculiar trades. " One " One man draws out the wire, another " straightens...put it on is a peculiar business, to " whiten the pin is another ; it is even a " trade by itself to put them into paper ; " and the important business... | |
| Ezra Sampson - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1816 - 432 pages
...fastening clothes. In manufacturing pins in England, one man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business of making a... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1820 - 368 pages
...but it is divided into a number of branches of which the greater pait are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it,...head. To make the head requires two or three distinct opera' ; ""i: to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the •mother; it is even a trade by itself... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1821 - 510 pages
...it is divided into a number of " branches, of which the greater part are likewise " peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, " another straightens...peculiar " business; to whiten the pins is another : it is even " a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; " and the important business of making... | |
| North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...furnishes a good illustration of the second category. 'One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it ; a fifth...to put it on is a peculiar business , to whiten the pin is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper ; and the important business... | |
| Peregrine Bingham - 1821 - 34 pages
...WHICH THE greater part ARE likewise peculiar trades. ONE man draws OUT TH-E wire ; ANOTHER strain/its IT ; a third cuts IT ; a fourth POINTS IT ; a fifth grinds IT AT THE top FO.R receiving THE HEAD; то make THE HEAD requires two OR three distinci OPERATIONS ; то put it ON is а реемliar business... | |
| H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points if, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another, it is even a trade by itself to pat them into the paper; and the important business of making a pin... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 872 pages
...making a pin affords employment to eighteen persons ; one man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top to receive the head, which two or three are employed in making. To put it on, to whiten the pin, to... | |
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