handicraftsman

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It is but natural that the handicraftsman, once released from his bonds, should have desired to share these privileges, more particularly as the old aristocratic régime constantly became more assertive and presumptuous.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

It was still, happily, the age of the handicraftsman; the machinery age was yet to come.

From Legends of Loudoun An account of the history and homes of a border county of Virginia's Northern Neck by Williams, Harrison

In course of time the handicraftsman followed the peddler, the German shoemaker, the tinsmith, and the saddler established themselves; the tents changed into strongly-built houses that stood around the market-place.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

In respect of her education and her character she had not risen a hair's breadth above the sphere of the handicraftsman.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

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)