 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs, they certainty could noc each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thoufand eight hundredth... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thoufand eight hundredth... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thoufand eight hundredth... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only were employed, and where some of...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1811 - 452 pages
...thousand' 'eight hundred" 'pins in a day. But if they had all wrought separately and'ihdependently, 'and without any of them having been educated to this...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ;' that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth;... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 530 pages
...feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs, they certainly could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thoufand eight hundredth... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Economics - 1820 - 368 pages
...sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory-of this kind where ten men «nly were employed, and where some of them consequently...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...wrought separately and independently, and without any of them havingbeen educated to this particular business, they certainly, could not each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day; that is, certainly, not the two hundredth and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1824 - 384 pages
...thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But, if they had all wrought, separately and independently c and without any of them having been educated to this...each of them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin a day; that is, ccrwhat comes here!" added his father, pointing to a labourer, who now came into the... | |
 | Thomas Hodgskin - Economics - 1827 - 318 pages
...same man will sometimes perform two or three of them. I have seen a small manufactory of this kind, where ten men only were employed, and where some of...them have made twenty, perhaps not one pin in a day ; that is, certainly, not the two hundred and fortieth, perhaps not the four thousand eight hundredth,... | |
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Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of forty-eight thousand pins, might be considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins in a day. But if... 
