 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...all that ever beguiled men through their vices. So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as...represent, an available principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market? — yes ; but what made your market cheap ? Charcoal may be cheap among... | |
 | American literature - 1860 - 1002 pages
...ever beguiled men through their vices. So far as I know, there is not in history record of any thing so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern...represent, an available principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market? — yes; but whit made your market cheap? Charcoal may bo cheap among your... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1860 - 858 pages
...all that ever beguiled men through their vices. So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as...commercial text, " Buy in the cheapest market and Bell in the dearest," represents, or under any circumstances could represent, an available principle... | |
 | John Watts - Colne Strike, 1860-1861 - 1861 - 76 pages
...in justification of Trades' Unions, quotes John Kuskin, to the effect that "there is not in history anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as...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
...3. The writer above quoted observes elsewhere (p. 284-5) : —" So far as I know, there is nothing so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern...represent, an available principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market ? Yes; but what made your market cheap ? Charcoal may be cheap among your... | |
 | Inventions - 1866 - 420 pages
...vices." a political economist, has seriously put forth a specific for getting wealthy ? — believing that such a thing was only a delusion of the writer's...naked hideousness — "Buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest." That is the key-stone of the triumphal arch of iniquity which the modern science... | |
 | 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."... | |
 | John Ruskin - Economics - 1877 - 216 pages
...all that ever beguiled men through their vices. So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as...represent, an available principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market ?—yes ; but what made your market cheap ? Charcoal may be cheap among... | |
 | 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
...all that ever beguiled men through their vices. So far as I know, there is not in history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as...represent, an available principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market? — yes; but what made your market cheap ? Charcoal may be cheap among... | |
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So far as I 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 market and sell in the dearest,' represents, or under any circumstances could represent,... 
