Final Report

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H.M. Stationery Office, 1924 - 405 sider

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Side 231 - In the progress of the division of labour, the employment of the far greater part of those who live by labour, that is, of the great body of the people, comes to be confined to a few very simple operations; frequently to one or two.
Side 231 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding, or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur.
Side 327 - Act, or which at that date is the property of any local authority, or has been acquired by any corporation or company for the purposes of a railway, dock, canal, water, or other public undertaking, or is the site of an ancient monument or other object of archaeological interest.
Side 327 - small holding " means an agricultural holding which exceeds one acre and either does not exceed fifty acres, or, if exceeding fifty acres, is at the date of sale or letting of an annual value for the purposes of income tax not exceeding fifty pounds.
Side 235 - I became more and more convinced that the feeling of monotony depends much less upon the particular kind of work than upon the special disposition of the individual.
Side 237 - ... the second generation of city men is of lower physique and has less power of persistent work than the first, and the third generation (where it exists), is lower than the second?
Side 208 - Royal Commission on Supply of Food and Raw Material in Time of War, etc., MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, vol.
Side 142 - Committee declared in their report " that the evidence tendered has failed to show that the railway companies are giving undue preferential treatment to foreign and colonial produce as compared with home produce contrary to the intention and effect of existing legislation.
Side 240 - ... our use, and incorporates it with our body, is vitiated and deranged. Nothing, therefore, can be more silly and childish than the estimates that are so frequently put forth of the comparative advantages of agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial industry. They are all intimately and indissolubly connected, and depend upon, and grow out of each other. "Land and trade...
Side 231 - His dexterity at his own particular trade seems, in this manner, to be acquired at the expense of his intellectual, social, and martial virtues.

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