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" Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness, and not for excellence of workmanship, is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire... "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 233
1867
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Chemistry, Theoretical, Practical, and Analytical: As Applied and ..., Volume 2

Sheridan Muspratt - Chemistry - 1853 - 312 pages
...remarks peculiarly applicable to lie manufactures and productions of the present day. He says : — A competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...merchants to ruin the reputation of the articles which they make and deal in ; and whilst those who buy for the sake of a fallacious saving, prefer mediocrity...
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Trades' Societies and Strikes

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain). Committee on Trades' Societies - Labor laws and legislation - 1860 - 694 pages
...perfection of trade as an art." An operative, complaining of this, quotes as follows from Wedgwood : — " A competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...destruction of arts and manufactures. The desire of saving much in a little time, without respect to the taste or quality of the goods, leads manufacturers...
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Trades' Societies and Strikes

National Association for the Promotion of Social Science (Great Britain). Committee on Trades' Societies - Labor laws and legislation - 1860 - 698 pages
...perfection of trade as an art." An operative, complaining of this, quotes as follows from Wedgwood : — " A competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...destruction of arts and manufactures. The desire of saving much in a little time, without respect to the taste or quality of the goods, leads manufacturers...
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The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; with Notices of His Works ...

Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt - Potters - 1865 - 468 pages
...establishment it has been continually improving both in the variety and in the perfection of its productions. "A competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...merchants to ruin the reputation of the articles which they manufacture and deal in; and whilst those who buy for the sake of a fallacious saving prefer medioerity...
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The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood, with memoirs of the Wedgwood ...

Llewellynn Frederick W. Jewitt - 1865 - 524 pages
...establishment it has been continually improving both in the variety and in the perfection of its productions. "A .competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...selling much in a little time, without respect to the tait« or quality of the goods, leads manufacturers and merchants to ruin the reputation of the articles...
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Taking Impressions of the Mouth

James William White - Dental ceramics - 1871 - 102 pages
...compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...and entire destruction of arts and manufactures." I IMPRESSION TRAYS. NEW FORMS. DESIGNED BY MR. ET STARK. (PATENT APPLIED TOE.) THESE Trays are made...
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Pottery and Porcelain, from Early Times Down to the Philadelphia Exhibition ...

Charles Wyllys Elliott - Porcelain - 1878 - 374 pages
...of the prophet shows that there were shabby fellows then, even in the days of God's Jews. I quote: "A competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...merchants to ruin the reputation of the articles which they make and deal in; and while those who buy, for the sake of a fallacious saving, prefer mediocrity...
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The Principles and practice of dentistry

Chapin Aaron Harris - 1882 - 860 pages
...compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A competition for cheapness, and not for excellence...and entire destruction of arts and manufactures." CHAPTER XVII. DEFECTS OF THE PALATINE ORGANS. ONE of the most distressing deformities to which the...
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American Journal of Dental Science

Dentistry - 1883 - 594 pages
...for cheapness toward depreciation in the quality of the goods offered. It has been truly said that " a competition for cheapness and not for excellence...and entire destruction of arts and manufactures." No inducement that can be offered in the way of lower prices can in the slightest degree compensate...
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Painless and Perfect Dentistry: A Popular Treatise on the Teeth

George Horatio Jones - Dental hygiene - 1885 - 86 pages
...are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness, and not for excellence of workmanship,...cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of art and manufactures." In fact, in every profession there are grades of ability, just as in the mechanical...
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