 One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar business, to whiten the...  The North American Review - Σελίδα 3831897Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1848 - 660 σελίδες
...which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is one peculiar business ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the paper : and the important... | |
 | Henry Mayhew - 1851 - 414 σελίδες
...operations. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, and a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...to put it on, is a peculiar business; to whiten the pins is another; it is eren a trade by itself to put them into the paper. I have seen a small manufactory... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1852 - 168 σελίδες
...Smith has given of the making of pins : ' One man,' he says, ' draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...pin is another. It is even a trade by itself to put the pins into paper : and the important business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 σελίδες
...sire so necessary and so cheap, that they are used by the poorest in the land as well as the richest. One man draws out the wire ; another straights it...points it ; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving tho head ; to make the head requires two or three dia tinct operations ; it is a peculiar trade to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 σελίδες
...but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...to put it on is 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... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1854 - 256 σελίδες
...fewer. " In a pin-manufactory," says Adam Smith, " one man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...to put it on is 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 490 σελίδες
...but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...to put it on is 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1855 - 496 σελίδες
...but it is divided into a number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...to put it on is 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... | |
 | The London Quarterly Review VOL.IV April and July,1855 - 1855 - 590 σελίδες
...this multiplex agency at work in nature, in his well-known passage on the manufacture of a pin : " One man draws out the wire, another straights it,...requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it in is a peculiar business, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1856 - 288 σελίδες
...is committed to a different man. As, according to Smith, in the trifling trade of pin-making, " one draws out the wire, another straights it, a third...fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head :" as in the whole process there are about eighteen distinct operations performed by as many distinct... | |
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