 | Samuel Fleischacker - Philosophy - 2009 - 352 pages
...themselves are persuasive because they appeal to commonsense observation ("A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another"), not because they reflect an exhaustive survey of history — come after the main work of getting us... | |
 | Guang-Zhen Sun - Business & Economics - 2005 - 312 pages
...is no doubt much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment...time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose. The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily... | |
 | Ruth Wells Sandwell - Business & Economics - 2005 - 354 pages
...did not bode well for the efficiency and productivity of their endeavours: "A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another ... The habit of sauntering and indolent careless application, which is naturally or rather necessarily... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Business & Economics - 2006 - 477 pages
...is no doubt much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment...time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose. The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily... | |
 | Patricia Fumerton - History - 2006 - 312 pages
...is no doubt much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another. The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally or rather necessarily... | |
 | Adam Smith - Business & Economics - 2007 - 597 pages
...however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort o£ employment to another. When he first begins the new...time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose. The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...no doubt, much less. It is, even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment...time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose. The habit of sauntering, and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...is no doubt much less. It is even in this case, however, very considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment...time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose. The habit of sauntering and of indolent careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily,... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1886 - 402 pages
...time is no doubt much less. It is even in this case something considerable. A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment...time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose. The habit of sauntering, and of indolent, careless application, which is naturally, or rather necessarily,... | |
 | 1913 - 504 pages
...a different place, and with quite different tools. A man commonly saunters a little in turning bis hand from one sort of employment to another. When...time he rather trifles than applies to good purpose. If a man has to perform exactly the same operations over and over again on the same piece of material,... | |
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A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another. When he first begins the new work, he is seldom very keen and hearty ; his mind, as they say, does not go to it, and for some time he rather trifles than applies... 
