 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
 | Frederic Harrison - Electronic books - 1902 - 232 pages
...far-reaching ruin, a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the beach to which he has beguiled an argosy." "Buy in the cheapest market? — yes ; but what made...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... | |
 | Frederic Harrison - Art critics - 1902 - 234 pages
...far-reaching ruin, a wrecker's handful of coin gleaned from the beach to which he has beguiled an argosy." "Buy in the cheapest market ? — yes ; but what made your market cheap 1 Charcoal may be cheap among your roof timbers after a fire, and bricks may be cheap in your streets... | |
 | Walter Sichel - Great Britain - 1904 - 398 pages
..."Charcoal," exclaims Ruskin (here in complete accord with Disraeli), "may be cheap among your roof-timbers after a fire, and bricks may be cheap in your streets...earthquake ; but fire and earthquake may not therefore be national benefits." Even in a concern purely commercial, reserve must be weighed against dividends.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 714 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 726 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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1905 - 736 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...cheap in your streets after an earthquake ; but fire \ 1 [Daniel iii. 1, of Nebuchadnezzar's golden image : " he set it up in the plain ' of Dura, in the... | |
 | 1889 - 692 pages
...to rob and cheat, and cozen, and best one another ? They entirely forget what Mr. Buskin tells, the "charcoal may be cheap among your roof timbers after...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 your... | |
 | John Ruskin, William Burgess - Religion in literature - 1907 - 476 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 Burgess - Religion in literature - 1907 - 492 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...principle of national economy. Buy in the cheapest market?—yes; but what made your market cheap? Charcoal may be cheap among your roof timbers after... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art - 1918 - 456 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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