At present, however, I devote myself to the question whether there has been such an increase in the production as would normally cheapen it.
In olden times they were introduced into ink with an honest belief that it would also improve and ensure its lasting qualities, but latterly more often to cheapen the cost of its manufacture.
So Ralph thought and called to mind that strong little steel axe of the man whom he had slain yesterday, and asked for the sight of such a weapon, if he might perchance cheapen it.
There was a half score and three of these chattels to be sold, who stood up one after other on the stone, that folk might cheapen them.
Yet for my part I were loth to cheapen such wares: for they make but evil servants, being proud, and not abiding stripes lightly, or toiling the harder for them; and they be somewhat too handy with the knife if they deem themselves put upon.
To cheapen this, peanut oil (Arachis oil) may entirely replace the olive oil, or about 20 per cent.
This, however, is not always the case, as a number of oils as well as tallow are used to adulterate this oil to cheapen it, and there are even some soaps called castile which contain no olive oil at all.
The only undignified job I know of is loafing, and nothing can cheapen a man who sponges instead of hunting any sort of work, because he's as cheap already as they can be made.
You write that Court says that a man who has occupied his position in the world naturally can't cheapen himself by stepping down into any little piddling job where he'd have to do undignified things.
The mainspring that impels all buyers and sellers to quicken their movements and to improve their methods and thus and otherwise to cheapen their costs of production, is the natural press of competition.
Over-decoration by this material tends to cheapenboth process and design.
Over-decoration tends to cheapen this valuable form of decoration.
This may, and undoubtedly does, conduce to cheapen commodities; but such cheapness will be dearly purchased by the sacrifice of capital, and the wholesale ruin of thousands.
We have seen that improvementscheapen the price of articles entering into the real wages of the laborer.
An increased production, in default of unoccupied tracts of fertile land, or of fresh improvements tending to cheapen commodities, can never be obtained but by increasing the labor in more than the same proportion.
The Pacific Railroad will cheapen supplies, and swell the volume of her immigration.
Railroads, it was hoped, would cheapen both of these items in the future, but as yet they seemed distant.
At one she rambles to the shops, To cheapen tea, and talk with fops; Or calls a council of her maids, And tradesmen, to compare brocades.
To shops in crowds the daggled females fly, Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
While the Dean goes out to cheapen books, She at the glass consults her looks; While Betty's buzzing at her ear, Lord, what a dress these parsons wear!
We cheapen the bride’s dower—A negro governor and his suite—A thunder-storm.
We do not reverence sex when we cheapen it by dissipation; or when we abandon it as unclean and unworthy and unholy; both attitudes are abnormal, and unbalanced.
James Lackington was one of the first to make a great business out of the sale of remainders; he was followed by Tegg, and these two men did much to cheapen and popularise literature.
To the individual farmer with large area and small means, the improvements in machinery that cheapen his production are not at present available.
Huge fortune awaits the first manufacturer who will standardize it, cheapen it, and specialize on it.
Cheapen it to its lowest point and urge its use for power and cook stoves until such time that you find yourselves able to supply gas for heating purposes of all kinds.
In this way economy would cheapen the light to the consumer.
It certainly is capable of being cheapened in the future, as gas has been, and this is one reason why gas companies should enter the business, as it is in their power to cheapen it.
On the contrary, it would appear to give them a better chance in foreign markets with the manufacturers of other countries, who cheapen their wares by free material.
He still further urges his ox-working scheme, on grounds of public economy: it will cheapen food, forbid importation of oats, and reduce wages.
He is represented to have been a kind and humane man; but this did not forbid a hearty relish (appearing often in his book) for any scheme which promised to cheapen labor.
It has erected tank-stations at railroad centres in every part of the country to cheapen the storage and delivery of oil.
Another misconception relative to interest is the idea that to make a subject interesting you must so popularize it that you cheapen it.
As a matter of fact, to cheapen a thing is ultimately to kill interest in it.
Your aim, however, is to cheapen labor in the tropics.
The renewal of the slave trade by the United States, on a large scale, would, of course, cheapen cotton in the proportion of the amount of labor supplied.
