 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1835 - 838 páginas
...one and a half to two guineas per annum. The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half a guinea at his loom ; and his sons, if he had...hand-wheel; and when it is considered that it required six to eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of th< three materials I have mentioned, sufficient... | |
 | Sir Edward Baines - 1835 - 656 páginas
...guineas per annum. The father of a t'miilv would earn from eight shillings to half-a-guinea at hi* loom; and his sons, if he had one, two, or three alongside...handwheel ; and when it is considered that it required six to eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials 1 have mentioned, sufficient... | |
 | P. Gaskell - 1836 - 456 páginas
...shown that the increased production of yarn or • Fide History of the Cotton Manufacture, p. 340. twist was the beginning of the great series of mechanical...alongside of him, six or eight shillings each per week; hut the great sheetanchor of all cottages and small farms was the lahour attached to the hand-wheel:... | |
 | P. Gaskell - 1836 - 436 páginas
...one and a half to two guineas per annurr. The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half a guinea at his loom, and his sons, if he had one or two, or three alongside him, six or eight shillings per week each ; but the great sheet-anchor of... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1843 - 242 páginas
...half to two guineas per annum. The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half-a-guinea at his loom ; and his sons, if he had one, two, or...; and when it is considered, that it required six to eight hands to prepare and spin yarn, of any of the three materials I have mentioned, sufficient... | |
 | Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 494 páginas
...one and a half to two guineas per annum. The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half a guinea at his loom, and his sons, if he had...or three alongside of him, six or eight shillings per week ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the... | |
 | Richard Whately Cooke-Taylor - 1886 - 472 páginas
...one and a half to two guineas per annum. The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half a guinea at his loom ; and his sons, if he had...or three alongside of him, six or eight shillings per week ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms was the labour attached to the... | |
 | Thomas Ellison - 1886 - 386 páginas
...family would earn from eight shillings to half u guinea at his loom, and his sons six or eight shillings per week ; but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages...farms was the labour attached to the hand-wheel;" and as it required six to eight hands to prepare and spin yarn of either cotton, wool, or flax sufficient... | |
 | Lloyd Jones - 1889 - 276 páginas
...one and a half to two guineas per annum. The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half a guinea at his loom, and his sons, if he had one or two or three alongside him, six or eight shillings per week each ; but the great sheet-anchor of... | |
 | Lloyd Jones - 1890 - 484 páginas
...one and a half to two guineas per annum. The father of a family would earn from eight shillings to half a guinea at his loom, and his sons, if he had one or two or three alongside him, six or eight shillings per week each ; but the great sheet-anchor of... | |
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... per week : but the great sheet-anchor of all cottages and small farms, was the labour attached to the handwheel... 
