 | P. J. Smit - 2007 - 484 стор.
...straightens it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it, a fifth grids it at the top for receiving the head. Ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of forty-eight thousand pins in a day ... But if they had all wrought separately and independently, and without any of them having been educated... | |
 | Adam Smith - 2007 - 513 стор.
...therefore, making a tenth part of forty- eight thoufand pins, might be confidered as making four thoufand eight hundred pins in a day. But if they had all wrought feparately and independently, and without any of them having been educated to this peculiar bufinefs,... | |
 | Henry Dunning Macleod - 1886 - 402 стор.
...pins in a day. There are in a pound of pins upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. These ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards...considered as making four thousand eight hundred pins a day. But if they had all wrought separately and independently; and without any of them having been... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1823 - 454 стор.
...among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day There are in a pound upwards of four thousand pins of a middling size. Those ten persons, therefore, could make among them upwards of 48,000 pins in a day. Each person, therefore, making a tenth part of 48,000 pins, might be considered... | |
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But though they were very poor, and therefore but indifferently accommodated with the necessary machinery, they could, when they exerted themselves, make among them about twelve pounds of pins in a day. 
