 | David Ames Wells - Economic history - 1889 - 532 pages
...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...two or three distinct operations ; 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 870 pages
...economy is that of pin-making as given by Adam Smith : ' One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...two or three distinct operations ; 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 a paper;... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 1372 pages
...illustration in Adam Smith's description of pin-making: ' ' One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...two or three distinct operations; 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 a paper;... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - Factory laws and legislation - 1891 - 556 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...two or three distinct operations ; 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... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Economics - 1891 - 226 pages
...from the " trade of the pin-maker." ' He shows how " 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," how "to make the head requires two or three distinct operations," how " to put it on is a peculiar... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Economics - 1891 - 764 pages
...operations. One man draws fte wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it a fifth it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two hree distinct operations ;; to put it on, is a peculiar business; to ten the pins is another ; it is... | |
 | ROBERT CHAMBERS - 1892 - 882 pages
...economy is that of pin-making as given by Adam Smith : ' One man draws out the wire, "another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds...two or three distinct operations ; 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 a paper;... | |
 | Hammond Lamont - English language - 1894 - 220 pages
...of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man 30 draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculial business ; to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into the... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1894 - 526 pages
...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...two or three distinct operations ; 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... | |
 | George Pierce Baker - Debates and debating - 1895 - 440 pages
...number of branches, of which the greater part are likewise peculiar trades. One man draws out the wire, another straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth...two or three distinct operations ; 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... | |
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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... 
