 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
 | Harry W. Cadman - Capitalism - 1888 - 276 pages
...Last," "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...represent, an available principle of national economy." And elsewhere, "Whenever we buy, or try to buy cheap goods, goods offered at a price that we know cannot... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 776 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...your market cheap ? Charcoal may be cheap among your root' timbers after a fire, and bricks may be cheap in your streets after an earthquake ; but tire... | |
 | John Ruskin - Readers - 1890 - 276 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 - 1891 - 454 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 - 1893 - 534 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 - English literature - 1894 - 448 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... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Periodicals - 1900
...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...cheapest market ? Yes; but what made your market cheap f Charcoal may be cheap among your roof timbers when your house and home has been made a ruin by fire.... | |
 | Sidney Lanier - 1899 - 168 pages
...Matthew iv. 4. 55-60. It is precisely this evil that Ruskin has in mind, I take it, when he condemns the commercial text, " Buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest," and when he declares that " Competition is the law of death" (Unto This Last, pp. 40, 59). lir. Compare... | |
 | Albert Shaw - American literature - 1900 - 810 pages
...know there is not iu history record of anything so disgraceful to the human intellect as the modern idea that the commercial text, " Buy in the cheapest...cheap ? Charcoal may be cheap among your roof timbers when your house and home has been made a ruin by fire. Bricks may be cheap in your streets after an... | |
 | Bookbinding - 1901 - 282 pages
...prosperity. ' Charcoal,' exclaims Ruskin in Unto This Last, ' 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 purely commercial concern reserve must be weighed against dividends.... | |
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