| Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 656 sivua
...shillings each per week : but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms, was the labour attached to the handwheel ; and when it is considered that it required six to eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials 1 have mentioned, sufficient... | |
| William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 838 sivua
...shillings each per week : but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms, was the labour attached to the hand-wheel; and when it is considered that it required six to eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of th< three materials I have mentioned, sufficient... | |
| Peter Gaskell - 1836 - 438 sivua
...shillings per week each ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the hand-wheel'; and when it is considered...required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 242 sivua
...shillings each per week ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms, was the labour attached to the hand-wheel ; and when it is considered, that it required six to eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient... | |
| Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 494 sivua
...eight shillings per week ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the handwheel ; and when it is considered...required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, — this... | |
| Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 498 sivua
...handwheel ; and when it is considered that it required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient...for the consumption of one weaver, — this shows dearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person, from the age of seven to eighty... | |
| Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1886 - 472 sivua
...the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the hand -wheel; and when it is considered that it required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows... | |
| Lloyd Jones - 1889 - 276 sivua
...shillings per week each ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the hand-wheel, and when it is considered...required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows... | |
| Lloyd Jones - 1890 - 484 sivua
...hand-wheel, and when it is considered that it required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient...shows clearly the inexhaustible source there was for labour for every person from the age of seven to eighty years (who retained their sight and could move... | |
| Lloyd Jones - 1890 - 484 sivua
...shillings per week each ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the hand-wheel, and when it is considered...required six or eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient for the consumption of one weaver, this shows... | |
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