handicraftsman

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Now that the designer and the handicraftsman are separate persons, the work of the former is unreal, and of the latter merely mechanical.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

It would have been better, after all, if he had been apprenticed to a handicraftsman," said the porter's wife, weeping; "for then we could have kept him with us.

From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)

As a student of art, he mourned over the reduction of the handicraftsman to a slave of the machine.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

The shop-keepers in this and every other town must break and starve: for it is the landed man that maintains the merchant, and shop-keeper, and handicraftsman.

From Political Pamphlets by Saintsbury, George

We could not help wishing that some rural grandee, who avows that he hates all manufacturers, could see this fair specimen of an English handicraftsman.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various