 Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest," represents, or under any circumstances could represent, an available principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market? — yes; but what made your market cheap? Charcoal may be cheap among...  Unto This Last - Page 32by John Ruskin - 2006 - 104 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the"" modern idea that the commercial text, " Buy in the cheapest...earthquake ; but fire and earthquake may not therefore be national benefits. Sell in the dearest ? — yes, truly ; but what made your market dear ? You sold... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, " Buy in the cheapest market and Bell in the dearest," represents, or under any circumstances...earthquake ; but fire and earthquake may not therefore be national benefits. Sell in the dearest ? — yes, truly ; but what made your market dear ? You sold... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 1002 pages
...know, there is not in history record of any thing so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, "Buy in the cheapest...economy. Buy in the cheapest market? — yes; but whit made your market cheap? Charcoal may bo cheap among your roof timbers after a fire, and bricks... | |
 | William Newton - 1860 - 422 pages
...I know, there is not in history record anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, ' Buy in the cheapest...represent, an available principle of national economy." Here, then, is the great iniquity which these essays are intended to lay bare to the light of day in... | |
 | John Watts - Colne Strike, 1860-1861 - 1861 - 76 pages
...the effect that "there is not in history anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text — buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest — represents an available principle of national economy." The doctrine thus quoted, and circulated amongst working... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1863 - 312 pages
...284-5) : —" So far as I know, there is nothing so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea, that the commercial text: ' buy in the cheapest...earthquake : but fire and earthquake may not therefore be national benefits." 4. Analyse cost of production into its constituent elements, point out its influence... | |
 | Inventions - 1866 - 420 pages
...I know, there is not in history record anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, ' Buy in the cheapest...represent, an available principle of national economy." Here, then, is the great iniquity which these essays are intended to lay bare to the light of day in... | |
 | Books - 1882 - 462 pages
...sense a guide. The credit system, Mr. Baillie tells us, has been denounced by Mr. Ruskin, and also the " commercial text " — " Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest." This, says Mr. Baillie, " Mr. Ruskin reckons a historial record disgraceful to the human intellect."... | |
 | Edmund J. Baillie - 1882 - 76 pages
...any means such ghost or vision may be avoided." The credit system, too, has been denounced; as also the "commercial text" — "Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest " — which Mr. BUSKIN reckons a historical record disgraceful to the human intellect. This — or... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 782 pages
...know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, " Buy in the cheapest...earthquake ; but fire and earthquake may not therefore be national benefits. Sell in the dearest ? — yes, truly ; but what made your market dear ? You sold... | |
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