 It may be said that there is not a working boy of average ability in the New England States, at least, who has not an idea of some mechanical invention or improvement in manufactures, by which, in good time, he hopes to better his position, or rise to...  Journal of the Society of Arts - Page 2821854Full view - About this book
 | William Chambers - 1854 - 128 pages
...elevation — are all stimulative and encouraging ; and it may be said, that there is not a workingboy of average ability in the New England States, at least,...manufactures, by which, in good time, he hopes to better bis position, or rise to fortune and social distinction.' At present, a body of operative carpenters... | |
 | William Chambers - 1854 - 382 pages
...elevation — are all stimulative and encouraging ; and it may be said, that there is not a working-boy of average ability in the New England States, at least,...manufactures, by which, in good time, he hopes to better bis position, or rise to fortune and social distinction.' At present, a body of operative carpenters... | |
 | 236 pages
...resulting from traditional notions and attachment to old systems '. In America, on the other hand, ' there is not a working boy of average ability in the New England States . . . who has not an idea of some mechanical invention or improvement in manufactures, by which, in... | |
 | Anthony Giddens, David Held - 1982 - 664 pages
...before him of ingenious men who have solved economic and mechanical problems to their own profit^nd elevation, are all stimulative and encouraging; and...mechanical invention or improvement in manufactures. . . . Nor does this knowledge of the two or three departments of one trade, or even the pursuit of... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 pages
...The Other Boston/ans: Poverty and Progress in the American ness and conflict in the United States. "There is not a working boy of average ability in the New England States, at least," observed a visiting British industrialist in 1854, "who has not an idea of some mechanical invention... | |
 | John Krige, Dominique Pestre - 1997 - 986 pages
...machines in trade or farming, Americans readily imagined new inventions. As one European visitor remarked, "there is not a working boy of average ability in the New England states . . . who has not an idea of some mechanical invention for improvement ... by which, in good time,... | |
 | 1862 - 434 pages
...economic and mechanical problems to their own profit and honour — are all stimulating and encouraging. " It may be said that there is not a working boy of...time, he hopes to better his position, or rise to future and social distinction." This Jack of all Trades' tendency is not incompatible with a judicious... | |
 | 1862 - 464 pages
...economic and mechanical problems to their own profit and honour—are all stimulating and encouraging. " It may be said that there is not a working boy of...New England States, at least, who has not an idea of come mechanical invention or improvement in manufactures, by which, in good time, he hopes to better... | |
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