The arrangement as to the division is different in these vessels The crew get seven-twelfths of the earnings, and we don't find bread or coals.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
There is this difference, that the owners do not provide bread or coals, and the men get seven-twelfths of the earnings.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
To employ an hour's labour, therefore, to communicate that knowledge which could with much better effect be given in five minutes, is both unreasonable and improper; and every one who will for a moment think on the subject must see, that a lesson, which in that short space of time conveyed the whole of the knowledge that the pupils had been able to pick up during the hour's exercise, would leave the teacher eleven-twelfths of his time to benefit the other classes.
"A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education"
James Gall