 The chairmen, porters, and coal-heavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of...  Water and Vegetable Diet in Consumption, Scrofula, Cancer, Asthma, and Other ... - Page 103by William Lambe - 1850 - 258 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jerry Z. Muller - Business & Economics - 1995 - 292 pages
...seems to be otherwise with potatoes. The chairmen [men who carry chairs], porters, and coalheavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by...are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of the people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more... | |
 | Andrew Marrison, Geraint Parry - Commercial policy - 1998 - 346 pages
...tall and fertile. The economist, Adam Smith, had noted that The chairmen, porters, and coalheavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by...are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more decisive... | |
 | Samuel Fleischacker - Philosophy - 2009 - 352 pages
...streetporters and prostitutes, whom he believes tend to be Irish and therefore raised on potatoes, are "the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions" (177). Here he openly uses as evidence, not only his own observation of "neutral" facts, but his own... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...with wheaten bread. But it seems to be otherwise with potatoes. The chairmen, porters, and coalheavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by...beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this... | |
 | Madeleine Ferrières - Collective behavior - 2006 - 428 pages
...products, seemed to suit them. Adam Smith testified to that: "The chairmen, porters, and coalheavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by...are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more decisive... | |
 | T. C. W. Blanning - History - 2007 - 764 pages
...potatoes could be witnessed in the impressive physiques of the labourers and prostitutes of London ('the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions'), 154 especially when compared with his stunted fellow Scots, subsisting on a diet of oatmeal. The potato... | |
 | Michael Lewis - Economic policy - 2007 - 1476 pages
...rank in England. But it seems to be otherwise with potatoes. The chairmen, porters, and coal-heavers he contributor, and to every other person. Where it...taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obn lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more decisive... | |
 | 1876 - 862 pages
...and that they do not look or work as well ; " that, which is odder still, the porters and coalheavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by...beautiful women, perhaps, in the British dominions — are from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, and fed with the potato ; and that £1,000 share in India... | |
 | Henry Harrison Bakken - Agriculture - 1926 - 862 pages
...than it is in this country. 11 The potato was regarded with esteem a century and a half ago. — " the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps...are said to be, the greater part of them, from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more decisive... | |
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