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" ... is done, it is generally the effect of fraud, and not of inability ; and the longest apprenticeship can give no security against fraud. Quite different regulations are necessary to prevent this abuse. The sterling mark upon plate, and the stamps upon... "
A Practical Treatise on the Law Relative to Apprentices and Journeymen, and ... - Page 14
by Joseph Chitty - 1812 - 169 pages
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1809 - 372 pages
...The sterling mark upon plate, and the stamps upon linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than any statute of apprenticeship....industry. A journeyman who works by the piece is likely to be industrious, because he derives a benefit from every exertion of his industry. An apprentice is...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1822 - 522 pages
...The sterling mark upon plate, and the stamps upon linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than any statute of apprenticeship....inquire whether the workman had served a seven years apprentice ship. The institution of long apprenticeships has no tendency to form young people to industry....
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Corporate reform, observations on the establishment of new municipalities [&c.].

sir Francis Palgrave - 1833 - 192 pages
...authority, against this usage, as being both oppressive and unnecessary. We are told by Adam Smith*, that " the " institution of long apprenticeships has " no tendency to form young people to in" dustry. A journeyman, who works by " the piece, is likely to be industrious, " because he derives...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1835 - 486 pages
...The sterling mark upon plate, and the stamps upon linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than any statute of apprenticeship....never thinks it worth while to inquire whether the workmen had served ' a seven years' apprenticeship. The institution of long apprenticeships has no...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith - Economics - 1838 - 476 pages
...The sterling mark upon plate, and the stamps upon linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than any statute of apprenticeship....looks at these, but never thinks it worth while to enquire whether the workman had served a seven years apprenticeship. The institution of long apprenticeships...
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On production

Joseph Salway Eisdell - Economics - 1839 - 636 pages
...The sterling mark upon plate, and the stamps upon linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than any statute of apprenticeship....workman had served a seven years' apprenticeship. To judge whether a man is fit to be employed, may surely be trusted to the discretion of his employers,...
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Scraps. [An anthology, ed.] by H. Jenkins

esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...plate, and the stamps upon linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than»any statute of apprenticeship. He generally looks at these,...industry. A journeyman who works by the piece is likely to be industrious, because he derives a benefit from every exertion of his industry. An apprentice is...
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An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. A careful ...

Adam Smith - 1875 - 808 pages
...abuse. The sterling mark on plate, and the stamps on linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than any statute of apprenticeship....never thinks it worth while to inquire whether the workmen had served a seven years' apprenticeship. The institution of long apprenticeships has no tendency...
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An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 1

Adam Smith - Economics - 1880 - 486 pages
...The sterling mark upon plate, and the stamps upon linen and woollen cloth, give the purchaser much greater security than any Statute of Apprenticeship....workman had served a seven years' apprenticeship. exertion of his industry. An apprentice is likely to be idle, and almost always is so, because he has...
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The State in Relation to Labour

William Stanley Jevons - Labor - 1882 - 188 pages
...Book I., chap, x., part ii.) especially has condemned long apprenticeships in wellknown passages. " The institution of long apprenticeships has no tendency...industry. A journeyman who works by the piece is likely to be industrious, because he derives a benefit from every exertion of his industry. An apprentice is...
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