 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1831 - 514 pages
...rest of the people does it appear to you, when you see a beggar in the streets without stockinas ! You consider such a person to be in the lowest stages...; one century ago, not one person in five hundred worethem ; now, not one person in a thousand is without them. Who made this great change in the condition... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1852 - 248 pages
...encouragement ; but civil commotions having arisen, he fell into great distress, and died neglected at Paris. Two centuries ago, not one person in a thousand wore...not one person in five hundred wore them ; — now scarce any one is without them. Who made this great change in the condition of the people of England,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1856 - 554 pages
...see a beggar in the streets without stockings ! We consider such a person to be in the lowest stage of want and suffering. Two centuries ago, not one...this great change in the condition of the people of almost all civilized countries? William Lee — who died at Paris of a broken heart. And why did he... | |
 | Charles Knight - Industrial arts - 1856 - 592 pages
...see a beggar in the streets without stockings ! We consider such a person to be in the lowest stage of want and suffering. Two centuries ago, not one...this great change in the condition of the people of almost all civilized countries? William Lee — who died at Paris of a broken heart. And why did he... | |
 | Charles Knight - Capitalism - 1859 - 526 pages
...see a beggar in the streets without stockings ! We consider such a person to be in the lowest stage of want and suffering. Two centuries ago, not one...people of almost all civilized countries ? William Lee — who died at Paris of a broken heart. And why did he die of grief and penury ? Because the people... | |
 | Charles Knight - Capitalism - 1866 - 464 pages
...see a beggar in the streets without stockings ! We consider such a person to be in the lowest stage of want and suffering. Two centuries ago, not one...people of almost all civilized countries ? William Lee — who died at Paris of a broken heart. And why did he die of grief and penury ? Because the people... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond - Commerce - 1926 - 306 pages
...their dazzling raiment the princes and the bishops of the Middle Ages. CHAPTER Xin THE CURSE OF MIDAS " Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...now not one person in a thousand is without them." This sentence from The Results of Machinery (1831),1 one of the publications of the Society for the... | |
 | James Gerald Smith - Trust companies - 1927 - 652 pages
...the Society far the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge described the first phase in the following words: "Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...now not one person in a thousand is without them." 2 In other words, the first stage was the production of things for mass consumption. "Energy and brains... | |
 | James Gerald Smith - Trust companies - 1927 - 670 pages
...the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge described the first phase in the following words: "Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...them; now not one person in a thousand is without them."2 In other words, the first stage was the production of things for mass consumption. "Energy... | |
 | Carlo M. Cipolla - Business & Economics - 2006 - 346 pages
...dazzling raiment the princes and the bishops of the Middle Ages. CHAPTER XIII THE CURSE OF MIDAS " Two centuries ago not one person in a thousand wore...now not one person in a thousand is without them." This sentence from The Results of Machinery (1831),1 one of the publications of the Society for the... | |
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Two centuries ago, not one person in a thousand wore stockings ; — one century ago, not one person in five hundred wore them;— now, not one person in a thousand is without them. 