 Rowley and his servant. The master, being forced to sell a pair of his oxen to pay his servant his wages, told his servant he could keep him no longer, not knowing how to pay him the next year. The servant answered, he would serve him for more of his...  Labor, with Preludes on Current Events - Page 254by Joseph Cook - 1880 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alonzo Barton Hepburn - 1915 - 580 pages
...he could serve him for more cattle. 'But what shall I do,' saith the master, 'when my cattle are all gone?' The servant replied, 'You shall then serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.' " l The troubles incident to capital and labor are ever with us. The Marquis Chastelleux after visiting... | |
 | Alonzo Barton Hepburn - 1915 - 582 pages
...he could serve him for more cattle. 'But what shall I do,' saith the master, 'when my cattle are all gone?' The servant replied, 'You shall then serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.' " * The troubles incident to capital and labor are ever with us. The Marquis Chastelleux after visiting... | |
 | Alfred Edward Bland, Philip Anthony Brown, Richard Henry Tawney - 1919 - 762 pages
...knowing how to pay him the next year. The servant answered he would serve him for more of his cattle. e But how shall I do ' (saith the master) £ when all...serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.' 22. YOUNG MEN AND MAIDS ORDERED TO ENTER SERVICE [Hist. MSS. Com., Vol. /., p. 132], 1655. At an adjourned... | |
 | Willis Duke Weatherford - 1924 - 498 pages
...servant he could keep him no longer, not knowing how to pay him next year. The servant answered him, he would serve him for more of his cattle. But how...serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.' (Winthrop, Hist. of New Eng. II. 219, 220.) It was the scarcity of laborers that made the sale of convicts... | |
 | 1876 - 782 pages
...could keep him no longer, not knowing how to pay him the next year. The servant answered him that ho would serve him for more of his cattle. But how shall...then serve me, and so you may have your cattle again ! ' Surely, if a man becomes an employer in industry only because he is a capitalist, the servant in... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...serve him for more of his cattle. But how shall I do (saith the master) when all my cattle are gone 1 The servant replied, You shall then serve me, and so you may have your cattle again ! ' Surely, if a man becomes an employer in industry only because lie is a capitalist, the servant... | |
 | John B. Sanford - 1984 - 362 pages
...servant he could keep him no longer, not knowing how to pay him the next year. The servant answered, he would serve him for more of his cattle. But how...The servant replied, you shall then serve me, and so have your cattle again. . . . Insolent, Winthrop noted in the margin, but it was rather more than that.... | |
 | John Demos - 1991 - 500 pages
...Massachusetts, and his servant: 'The master, being forced to sell a pair of his oxen to pay his wages, told his servant he could keep him no longer, not knowing how...serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.'" The humor of this episode was based in part on its peculiarity — its implicit affront to the norms... | |
 | Kathleen Stocking - 1994 - 248 pages
...answered, he would serve him for more of his cattle. "But how shall I do," said the master, "when all of my cattle are gone?" The servant replied, "You shall then serve me, and so you may have your cattle back. " The Beaver Island Mormons were a variation on a theme, one of a long line of American religious... | |
 | Stephen Innes - 1995 - 432 pages
...him the next year. The servant answered [that] he would serve him for more of his cattle. But [what] shall I do (saith the master) when all my cattle are...shall then serve me, and so you may have your cattle again.105 Social mobility, both upward and downward, produced shocks that were profoundly unsettling... | |
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