 ... filaments of cotton, or impure from constant respiration, or from other causes. They are engaged in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges, who watch the movements, and assist...  The British nation: its arts and manufactures - Page 124de British nation - 1851 - 192 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 656 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist...incessant motion, and the exhaustless power of the tnachine."t These passages will be appreciated rightly after reading the following just and unanswerable... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1836 - 572 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist...mighty material force, •which toils with an energy unconscious of fatigue. The persevering labour of the operative must rival the mathematical precision,... | |
 | 1836 - 564 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist...mighty material force, which toils with an energy unconscious of fatigue. The persevering labour of the operative must rival the mathematical precision,... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 694 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist the operations of a mighty material foree, which toils with an energy ever unconscious of fatigue. The persevering labour of the operative... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1841 - 380 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist the operations of a mighty material foree, which toils with an energy ever unconscious of fatigue. The persevering labour of the operative... | |
 | 1842 - 678 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist...the mathematical precision, the incessant motion, tad ihe exhauslless power of the machine. " Hence, besides Ihe negative results — the total abstraction... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1842 - 96 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical engergies. They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist...mighty material force, which toils with an energy unconscious of fatigue. The persevering labor of the operative must rival the mathematial precision,... | |
 | Albert Brisbane - 1844 - 90 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, aud unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements and assist...energy ever unconscious of fatigue. The persevering labor of the operative must rival the mathematical precision, the incessant motion and the exhaustless... | |
 | Samuel Kydd - 1857 - 368 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies. They are drudges who watch the movements and assist...motion, and the exhaustless power of the machine. " Hence, besides the negative results, the total abstraction of every moral and intellectual stimulus... | |
 | Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth - 1862 - 664 pages
...in an employment which absorbs their attention, and unremittingly employs their physical energies.2 They are drudges who watch the movements, and assist...motion, and the exhaustless power of the machine. Hence, besides the negative results — the abstraction of moral and intellectual stimuli — the absence... | |
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