 ... in a cheap year they will not work above two days in a week; their humour being such that they will not provide for a hard time, but just work so much and no more, as may maintain them in that mean condition to which they have been accustomed.  An Introduction to English Politics - Page 496by John Mackinnon Robertson - 1900 - 515 pagesFull view - About this book
 | sir Josiah Child (bart.) - 1751 - 230 pages
...days in a week ; their humour being fuch, that they will not provide fora hard time, butjoft work fo much and no more, as may maintain them in that. mean condition to which they have been accuftomed. Objeft. 3. If intereft be abated, ufurera will call in their money ; fo what mail gentlemen... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Brigands and robbers - 1751 - 244 pages
...Days in a Week ; their Humour being fuch that they will not provide for a hard Time, but juft work fo much, and no more, as may maintain them in that mean Condition to which they have been accuftomed.' Is it not therefore, upon this Concefiion, demonftrable, that the poor Man himfelf will... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1783 - 412 pages
...days in a week; their humour being fuch that they will not provide for a hard time, but juft work fo much, and no more, as may maintain them in that mean condition to which they have been accuftomed.' Is it not therefore, upon this conceffion, demonftrable, that the poor man himfelf will... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...above two days in a week ; their humour being such that they will not provide for a hard time, but just work so much, and no more, as may maintain them...mean condition to which they have been accustomed.' Is it not therefore, upon this concession, demonstrable, that the poor man himself will live much better... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 448 pages
...above two days in a week ; their humour being such that they will not provide for a hard time, but just work so much and no more, as may maintain them...mean condition to which they have been accustomed." Is it not therefore, upon this concession, demonstrable, that the poor man himself will live much better... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 442 pages
...above two days in a week ; their humour being such that they will not provide for a hard time, but just work so much and no more, as may maintain them...mean condition to which they have been accustomed." Is it not therefore, upon this concession, demonstrable, that the poor man himself will live much better... | |
 | Lujo Brentano - Hours of labor - 1894 - 164 pages
...above two days in a week ; their humour being such, that they will not provide for a hard time, but just work so much and no more as may maintain them...mean condition to which they have been accustomed." 3 Tucker had written in his " Essay on Trade," the first edition of which was published in 1750 : "... | |
 | Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - Finance - 1899 - 364 pages
...work two days in a week; their humour being such, that they will not provide for a hard time ; but just work so much and no more, as may maintain them...mean condition to which they have been accustomed." This passage was first printed in Child's earlier work: Brief Observations concerning Trade and Interest... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - English literature - 1902 - 318 pages
...work above two days in a week; their humour being such that they will not provide for a hard time, but just work so much and no more, as may maintain them...mean condition to which they have been accustomed." Is it not therefore, upon this concession, demonstrable, that the poor man himself will live much better... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1903 - 514 pages
...above ' two days in a week ; their humour being such that they ' will not provide for a hard time, but just work so much ' and no more, as may maintain them in that mean condi' tion to which they have been accustomed.' Is it not therefore, upon this concession, demonstrable,... | |
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