| Arnold Toynbee - 1908 - 328 páginas
...increased by one-fourth, and this was an increase upon a great increase in the preceding generation.4 Passing to manufactures, we find here the all-prominent...system, the consequence of the mechanical discoveries of .u 1 Rural Rides, ed. 1830, p. 570. 2 Kebbel's Agricultural Labourer, pp. 207-8. 3 The North and West... | |
| Henry Hamilton - 1926 - 446 páginas
...a definition is where he remarks that " the all-prominent fact," with respect to manufacture, was " the substitution of the factory for the domestic system,...consequence of the mechanical discoveries of the time. " For this he took 1760 as a convenient starting-point ; and he did not bring his detailed study much... | |
| 1928 - 330 páginas
...increased by one-fourth, and this was an increase upon a great increase in the preceding generation.4 Passing to manufactures, we find here the all-prominent...system, the consequence of the mechanical discoveries of 1 Rural Rides, ed. 1830, p. 579. 1 Kebbel's Agricultural Labourer, pp. 207-8. the time. Four great... | |
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