 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 - 1877 - 676 pagina’s
...eternally tottering in some parts, and in other parts mouldering eternally into ruins. That science, 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 ho had given a new birth to... | |
 | H. W. Furber - 1884 - 540 pagina’s
...settled. In 1844, De Quincey, a believer in Ricardo's Theory of Rent, one of the orthodox principles, said of political economy: " Nothing can be postulated,...even as to the earliest principles is predominant." Nothing is to be taken for granted. This fact cannot be too distinctly impressed upon your minds and... | |
 | H. W. Furber - 1884 - 554 pagina’s
...settled. In 1844, De Quincey, a believer in Ricardo's Theory of Rent, one of the orthodox principles, said of political economy: " Nothing can be postulated,...even as to the earliest principles is predominant." Nothing is to be taken for granted. This fact cannot be too distinctly impressed upon your minds and... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 462 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...sketched a fragment of this science, entitled "The Templars' Dialogues." l The purpose of this fragment was to draw into much stronger relief than Ricardo... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1890 - 466 pagina’s
...its practical applications, is the science of Political Economy. Nothing can be postulated—nothing can be demonstrated; for anarchy, even as to the earliest...sketched a fragment of this science, entitled "The Templars' Dialogues" l The purpose of this fragment was to draw into much stronger relief than Bicardo... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 452 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...sketched a fragment of this science, entitled " The Templars' Dialogues." l The purpose of this fragment was to draw into much stronger relief than Ricardo... | |
 | Warren Edwin Brokaw - 1927 - 396 pagina’s
...definition of a single important term — political economy itself — is settled. In 1844 De Quincy said of political economy: 'Nothing can be postulated,...even as to the earliest principles is predominant.' The professors are not even agreed as to whether it is a science or an art, or a combination of both,... | |
 | Terry Peach - 2003 - 370 pagina’s
...mouldering eternally into ruins. . . . Such, even to this moment, as regards its practical application, is the science of Political Economy. Nothing can be...even as to the earliest principles, is predominant." To give greater clearness and precision, therefore, to the elementary distinctions, is the author's... | |
 | 110 pagina’s
...niet veranderen. Alleen de betrekkelijkheid der beweging heeft voor ons belang. 6. Een absurditeit. Nothing can be postulated — nothing can be demonstrated,...even as to the earliest principles, is predominant. Th. de Quincey. Logic of political Economy. (Collected Writings. Vol. IX.) Londen 1879. blz. 119. Het... | |
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