 On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster.  The Civilization of Illiteracy - Page 852by Mihai Nadin - 1997 - 881 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1829 - 566 pages
...and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning, abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes...workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster. The... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
...and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning, abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes...workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster. The... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 pages
...contrivance. For the simplest operation, some help is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are all thrown aside. On every hand the living artisan is...workshop to make room for a speedier inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that drive it faster.... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pages
...and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning, abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes...workshop, to make room for a speedier inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster. The... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1841 - 558 pages
...labour of numbers. Then, to use the language of another writer, "on every hand the living artisan was driven from his work-shop, to make room for a speedier inanimate one. The shuttle dropped from the fingers of the weaver, and fell into iron fingers, that could ply it faster."... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - German literature - 1838 - 468 pages
...and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning, abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes...workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster. The... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 862 pages
...and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes...workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the weaver, and falls into iron fingers that ply it faster. The... | |
 | 1843 - 1068 pages
...calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning and abbreviating process is in readiness. Our old modes...discredited and thrown aside. On every hand the living artizan is driven from bis workshop, to make room for a speedier inanimate one. The shuttle drops from... | |
 | 432 pages
...and calculated contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning, abbreviating process, is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are all diacrcdited, and thrown aside. On every hand, the living artisan is driven from his workshop, to make... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 590 pages
...contrivance. For the simplest operation, some helps and accompaniments, some cunning, abbreviating pro:ess is in readiness. Our old modes of exertion are all...aside. On every hand, the living artisan is driven from tiis workshop, to make room for a speedier, inanimate one. The shuttle drops from the fingers of the... | |
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