 | John Stuart Mill - 1904 - 626 pagina’s
...as beforej only ям element ia operative : before it was D, now it is D. But after all, D was pot absent, though inoperative. The inertness of D allowed U to put forth Ь total effect. The practical comprearion of D being withdrawn, U ipringB up like water in a pump... | |
 | Margaret Russett - 1997 - 318 pagina’s
...The dreamer's vision "rises up," repeating Coleridge's figure, from the abyss of objectified labor, "like water in a pump when released from the pressure of air" (M9:139). "One gravity rises through another gravity," as De Quincey comments in his analysis of exchange... | |
 | Neil De Marchi, Craufurd D. Goodwin - 1999 - 526 pagina’s
...figure 1, where De Quincey relied on a pressure pump metaphor. In the musical snuffbox example, D is "inoperative. The inertness of D allowed U to put...in a pump when released from the pressure of air" (139). Since D could not exert "any positive force" (because it was "unlimited"), the "retirement of... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1875 - 628 pagina’s
...are told "the I " inertness of D (that is, difficulty of attainment) allowed U (that " is, utility) to put forth its total effect. The practical compression...up like water in a pump, when " released from the compression of air ;" and so forth. In parts of this curious passage De Quincy speaks of symbol U as... | |
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D was not absent, though inoperative. The inertness of D allowed u to put forth its total effect. The practical compression of D being withdrawn, u springs up like water in a pump when released from the pressure of air. 
