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Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge - Page 27
1890
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The Great Western Magazine and Anglo-American Journal of ..., Volume 1

1842 - 498 pages
...of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, by the invention of a great number of machines, which...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." It might seem to some, that as this distribution nf the various parts of a complicated business might...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1848 - 622 pages
...Manufactures, 3rd Edition, p. 201. time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, the invention of a great number of machines...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." Of these the increase of dexterity of the individual workman is the most obvious and universal. It...
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The Standard Library Cyclopedia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical ...

1848 - 476 pages
...saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one speck* of work to another;" and, Srdly. the invention of a great number of machines which...abridge labour, and enable one man to do the work off many :" to which may be added, 4thly, the separation which it causes between labour and the direction...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 30

1848 - 660 pages
...saving of time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and, lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one man to do the work of another." — Wealth of Nations. In the arrangement of...
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Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications ..., Volume 1

John Stuart Mill - 1849 - 638 pages
...secondly, the saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, the invention of a great number of machines...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." Of these the increase of dexterity of the individual workman is the most obvious and universal. It...
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Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 21

Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1849 - 710 pages
...saving of time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which facilitate and abridge labor, and enable one man to do the work of many." The increase of dexterity by constant practice is...
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The National Cyclopaedia of Useful Knowledge, Volumes 5-6

1853 - 1032 pages
...the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another ; ' and, iirdly, • the invention of a great number of machines which...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many :' to which may 471 DIVORCE. DIVORCE. be added, 4tlily, the separation which it causes j for adultery,...
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The Standard Library Cyclopaedia of Political, Constitutional ..., Volume 2

1853 - 448 pages
...saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another;" and, 3rdly. " the invention of a great number of machines which...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many :" to which may be added, 4thly, the separation which it causes between labour and the direction of...
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Political Economy

Nassau William Senior - 1854 - 256 pages
...saving of the time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." Smith was the first writer who laid much stress on the division of labour. The force and the variety...
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A Practical Treatise on Banking, Volume 1

James William Gilbart - 1856 - 388 pages
...saving of time which is commonly lost in passing from one species of work to another; and lastly, to the invention of a great number of machines which...labour, and enable one man to do the work of many." The increase of dexterity by constant practice is very observable in the practice of " casting up."...
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