 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...  The Christian Pioneer - Page 3181829Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1776 - 526 pages
...make the head requires two, or three dif. tincl operations ; to put it on, is a peculiar bufinefs ; to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itfelf to pat them into the paper; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner, divided... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1789 - 526 pages
...head requires B 4 two BOOK two or three diftinct operations ; to put it on, is a peculiar bufinefs, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner,... | |
 | Robert John Thornton - Economics - 1799 - 852 pages
...to make the bead requires two or three dijlinft operations ; to put it 140 tuii a peculiar bufinefs, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1807 - 506 pages
...straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grinds it at the top for rcccivinij the head: to make the head requires two or three distinct operations ; to put it on is a peculiar bu.-incss, to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itself to put them into tinpaper ;... | |
 | John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...straightens 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 <('-.. tinct business; to whiten the pins is another ; and it is even a trade by itself to pat them... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...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...business of making a pin is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which, in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812 - 520 pages
...head requires B 4 two BOOK two or three diftinct operations ; to put it on, is a peculiar bufinefs, .to whiten the pins is another ; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner,... | |
 | Adam Smith - Economics - 1812
...head requires 8 4 two BOOK two or three diflinct operations ; to put it on, is . a peculiar bufinefs, to whiten the pins is another; it is even a trade by itfelf to put them into the paper ; and the important bufinefs of making a pin is, in this manner,... | |
 | Ezra Sampson - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 434 pages
...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...business of making a pin, is, in this manner, divided into about eighteen distinct operations, which in some manufactories, are all performed by distinct... | |
 | Andrew Thomas Blayney Baron Blayney - France - 1814 - 526 pages
...straightens 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...put it on is a peculiar business, to " whiten the pin is another ; it is even a " trade by itself to put them into paper ; " and the important business... | |
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