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Loco Focos claimed, as skilled men and household breadwinners, that only a few years earlier, "an expert artizan could earn the price of a barrel and a half to two barrels of flour per week," but currently skilled artisans could not use their craft-standing to provide for their families.

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

It was a golden age for poets and panegyrists, koranists and literati, preachers and rhetoricians, physicians and scientists who, besides receiving high salaries and fabulous presents, were treated with all the honours of Chinese Mandarins; and, like these, the humblest Moslem — fisherman or artizan — could aspire through knowledge or savoir faire to the highest offices of the Empire.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

In truth, the texture of that salmon-coloured skin could be seen to be aristocratic without a microscope, and the exceptious artizan has an offhand way when contrasts are made painfully strong by an idler of this kind coming, gloved and brushed, into the very den where he is sweating and muddling in his shirt-sleeves.

The Hand of Ethelberta 2006

The notion of improving the condition of the poor had not yet dawned on the mind of the governing class; to make the artizan and the operative self-supporting and self-respectful was a movement not merely unformulated, but a conception beyond the parturient faculty of a member of the Jacquerie.

Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

The small shopkeepers were continually exposed to visits and demands of provisions, drapery, or whatever they sold; and the same hands that set fire to the houses of the rich, and tore up the vines of the cultivator, broke the looms of the weaver, and stole the tools of the artizan.

Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs John Foxe

Berlin, nor did any of our artizan friends, although there were very pressing orders in the shape of those unvarying German court douceurs, diamond-circled snuff boxes, and insignia of the Red and Black Eagle.

A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

They sit on the benches watching the artizan at his work for hours, and they talk about everything in the world.

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Various

I was asked if I knew of one suited to become an artizan-missionary among the tribe of the Basutos.

God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Clara M. S. Lowe

I enter the home of the artizan, cheer him in his labors, and interest myself in the affairs of his family; I call the children by their names, caress them, and make them my friends.

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

Whilst the Roman Catholics were leaving the country to avoid the penal laws, the most skilful and industrious of the artizan class, -- the very backbone of the nation -- were being driven out by the prohibition of their trades.

Is Ulster Right? Anonymous