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Page xii
... true in its final statements , and a thousand- fold more serviceable to the navigator , than any treatise on wealth which founds its conclusions on the popular conception of wealth can ever become to the economist . 4. It was ...
... true in its final statements , and a thousand- fold more serviceable to the navigator , than any treatise on wealth which founds its conclusions on the popular conception of wealth can ever become to the economist . 4. It was ...
Page xiii
... true , I have sometimes heard Pope condemned for the lowness instead of the height of his standard : " Honesty is indeed . a respectable virtue ; but how much higher may men attain ! Shall nothing more be asked of us than that we be ...
... true , I have sometimes heard Pope condemned for the lowness instead of the height of his standard : " Honesty is indeed . a respectable virtue ; but how much higher may men attain ! Shall nothing more be asked of us than that we be ...
Page xiv
... : " Around this temple , let the Merchant's law be just , his weights true , and his contracts guileless . " If any of my present readers think that my language in this that it is even accurately in proportion to the number xiv PREFACE .
... : " Around this temple , let the Merchant's law be just , his weights true , and his contracts guileless . " If any of my present readers think that my language in this that it is even accurately in proportion to the number xiv PREFACE .
Page xvii
... true sub- stance sold ; so that a man could be sure , if he chose to pay the Government price , that he got for his money bread that was bread , ale that was ale , and work that was work . - ( 3. ) Thirdly , that any man or woman , or ...
... true sub- stance sold ; so that a man could be sure , if he chose to pay the Government price , that he got for his money bread that was bread , ale that was ale , and work that was work . - ( 3. ) Thirdly , that any man or woman , or ...
Page xxi
... true that thousands of readers of Ruskin never have com- Imitted his mistakes and never will . But what of it ? Commonplace minds have commonplace characteristics and keep well within the safe , ( xxi ) beaten track . They come and go ...
... true that thousands of readers of Ruskin never have com- Imitted his mistakes and never will . But what of it ? Commonplace minds have commonplace characteristics and keep well within the safe , ( xxi ) beaten track . They come and go ...
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