 | Richard Guest - Cotton growing - 1823 - 110 pages
...by contact and an interchange of ideas; they witnessed a monotonous scene of life which commnnicated a corresponding dulness and mechanical action to their...scene which they witnessed were the market day of the village, and the attendance at Church on the Sabbath, and the summum bonum of their lives was to sit... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...but their own families to converse with, had not their understandings rubbed bright by contact and an pping tree, Mutters, to see the day no bright. Fragments...Hope's poesy : And oft Dame stops her buzzing wheel village, and the attendance at church on the Sabbath, and the summum bonum of their lives was to sit... | |
 | 1923 - 142 pages
.... . . Men being mostly employed alone, or having few but their own families to converse with . . . witnessed a monotonous scene of life which communicated...greatest varieties of scene which they witnessed were the market-day of the village and the attendance at Church on the Sabbath, and the summum bonum of their... | |
 | E. Royston Pike - Business & Economics - 2005 - 390 pages
...but their own families to converse with, had not their understandings rubbed bright by contact and an interchange of ideas ; they witnessed a monotonous scene of life which communicated a corresponding dullness and mechanical action to their minds. The greatest varieties of scene which they witnessed... | |
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... prices, little competition between individuals, and the mind became contracted from this general stagnation and its being so seldom roused to exertion. Men being mostly employed alone, or having few but their own families to converse with, had not... 