Descriptive Essays, Band 2J. Murray, 1857 |
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Seite 33
... clerk of the Ampthill Union states that , in his district , a large proportion of the cottages are so small , that it is impossible to keep up even the common decencies of life . In one of them , containing only two rooms , there ...
... clerk of the Ampthill Union states that , in his district , a large proportion of the cottages are so small , that it is impossible to keep up even the common decencies of life . In one of them , containing only two rooms , there ...
Seite 51
... clerk into every room in his manufactory , immediately after dinner - hour on Sa- turday , to pay each man individually , who , by this simple arrangement , is not taken from his work half a minute . The master thus saves on an average ...
... clerk into every room in his manufactory , immediately after dinner - hour on Sa- turday , to pay each man individually , who , by this simple arrangement , is not taken from his work half a minute . The master thus saves on an average ...
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... clerk in a box where we want to go , -say “ How much ? ” — see him horizontally poke a card into a little machine that pinches it - receive our ticket - take our place — read our newspaper , —and on reaching our terminus drive away ...
... clerk in a box where we want to go , -say “ How much ? ” — see him horizontally poke a card into a little machine that pinches it - receive our ticket - take our place — read our newspaper , —and on reaching our terminus drive away ...
Seite 83
... and there is nothing to break the sober dulness of the scene but a few clerks and messengers , who , like rabbits popping from one hole of their warren into an- 6 other , enter upon the platform from the door of THE DOWN TRAIN . 83.
... and there is nothing to break the sober dulness of the scene but a few clerks and messengers , who , like rabbits popping from one hole of their warren into an- 6 other , enter upon the platform from the door of THE DOWN TRAIN . 83.
Seite 102
... clerk records them , convulsively snatching up , at each change of station , the particular book of entry which belongs to it . Another clerk , at each exclamation , hands over to a porter a bill for the cost of conveyance , which he ...
... clerk records them , convulsively snatching up , at each change of station , the particular book of entry which belongs to it . Another clerk , at each exclamation , hands over to a porter a bill for the cost of conveyance , which he ...
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Seite 55 - ... are, to say the least, as much within the proper jurisdiction of parliament as the most humane mode of sweeping chimneys, or the proper thickness of partywalls. The health of the nation being nearly synonymous with its wealth, it is evident that the labouring power of the British people is a machine which it is the duty as well as the interest of the State to protect.