 acquaintance with the stars" by means of its inevitable and imperishable truth, would become as treacherous as Shakespeare's " stairs of sand": or, like the fantastic architecture which the winds are everlastingly pursuing in the Arabian desert, would...  The Logic of Political Economy, and Other Papers - Pagina 6door Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 387 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1844 - 286 pagina’s
...stars" by means of its inevitable and imperishable truth, would become as treacherous as Shakspeare's " stairs of sand : " or, like the fantastic architecture...fragment was — to draw into much stronger relief than Eicardo himself had done, that one radical doctrine as to value, by which he had given a new birth... | |
 | Friedrich List - 1856 - 554 pagina’s
...illustration from the science of Astronomy, the author proceeds: — " Such, even to this moment, as to its practical applications, is the science of Political...can be postulated ; nothing can be demonstrated." The whole work consists of an acute examination of the errors of Political Economy BO far as they come... | |
 | Georg Friedrich List - 1856 - 528 pagina’s
...illustration from the science of Astronomy, the author proceeds: — " Such, even to this moment, as to its practical applications, is the science of Political...can be postulated ; nothing can be demonstrated." The whole work consists of an acute examination of the errors of Political Economy so far as they come... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 396 pagina’s
...MARKSMAN 271 THE INCOGNITO ; OR, COUNT FITZ-HUM . . . 305 THE DICE 324 THE KING OF HAYTI 357 THE LOGIC OF POLITICAL ECONOMY. PREFATORY. THAT the reader may...science, entitled " The Templar's Dialogues." The pirpose of this fragment was, to draw into much stronger relief than Bicardo himself had done that... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 404 pagina’s
...eternally tottering in some parts, and in other parts mouldering eternally into ruins. That science, I* which now holds "acquaintance with the stars" by means...fragment was, to draw into much stronger relief than Ricardo himself had done that one radical doctrine as to value, by which he had given a new birth to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1859 - 412 pagina’s
...tottering in some parts, and in other parts mouldering eternally into ruins. That science, 1* Frea* which now holds "acquaintance with the stars" by means...fragment was, to draw into much stronger relief than Ricardo himself had done that one radical doctrine as to value, by which he had given a new birth to... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 514 pagina’s
..." by means of its inevitable and imperishable truth, would become as treacherous as Shakspeare's " stairs of sand ;" or like the fantastic architecture...fragment was — to draw into much stronger relief than Bicardo himself had done, that one radical doctrine as to value, by which he had given a new birth... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 506 pagina’s
..." by means of its inevitable and imperishable truth, would become as treacherous as Shakspeare's " stairs of sand ;" or like the fantastic architecture...fragment was — to draw into much stronger relief than Eicardo himself had done, that one radical doctrine as to value, by which he had given a new birth... | |
 | Stephen Colwell - 1867 - 104 pagina’s
...illustration from the science of Astronomy, the author proceeds: — " Such, even to this moment, as to its practical applications, is the science of Political...can be postulated ; nothing can be demonstrated." The whole work consists of an acute examination of the errors of Political Economy so far as they come... | |
 | New York Chamber of Commerce - 1877 - 478 pagina’s
...gleam of comfort was when I found that DE QUINCT wrote : " Nothing can be postulated concerning it; nothing can be demonstrated, for anarchy, even as to the earliest principles, is predominant" And since such great men thus differ, let me claim credit for sincerity, if not for wisdom, when I... | |
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