| Edmund Burke - 1844 - 978 Seiten
...consumers, to be an evil : and he adopted Sir R. Peel's principle, that the real interest of the country was to buy in the cheapest market, and to sell in the dearest. He glanced at the history of the Corn-laws ; remarking that for ihc last hundred and fifty years the... | |
| 1868 - 748 Seiten
...side of such concerns across the Atlantic, they seem to fare little better. We have always been told to buy in the cheapest market and to sell in the dearest, but when we suddenly turn merchants and are for selling off our supernumerary goods, we must take the... | |
| 1844 - 974 Seiten
...consumers, to be an evil : and he adopted Sir R. Peel's principle, that the real interest of the country was to buy in the cheapest market, and to sell in the dearest. He glanced at the history of the Corn-laws ; remarking that for the last hundred and fifty years the... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1844 - 1020 Seiten
...of free-trade were the principles of common sense — that the only sound principle of commerce was to buy in the cheapest market, and to sell in the dearest; but when they were urged to apply this principle, even in a modified degree, to corn and sugar, they... | |
| 1850 - 744 Seiten
...soundness of that axiom of political economy, which states it to be for the individual interest of all, to buy in the cheapest market and to sell in the dearest. Some, however, may have doubts regarding the successful application of this principle to the agricultural... | |
| William Arthur - 1852 - 424 Seiten
...smite it not, for that great right hand of justice holds a tremendous sword. The maxim, " It is my duty to buy in the cheapest market, and to sell in the dearest ; " has a manifest basis of truth. It would be wrong for a merchant to go and buy tea at eighteenpence... | |
| William Arthur - 1899 - 436 Seiten
...smite it not, for that great right hand of justice holds a tremendous sword. The maxim, " It is my duty to buy in the cheapest market, and to sell in the dearest ;" has a manifest basis of truth. It would be wrong for a merchant to go and buy tea at eighteen-pence... | |
| Frédéric Bastiat - 1855 - 562 Seiten
...libre d'acheter et de vendre au marché le plus avantageux ! » « Every Englishman must be allowed to buy in the cheapest market and to sell in the dearest. » (Speech on the tariff. 10 mai 1842.) Principe dont il s'écarte, puisqu'il oblige les Anglais et... | |
| William Smith O'Brien - 1856 - 394 Seiten
...despise, perhaps abhor, his worshippers. The time has not yet arrived when all mankind shall agree, " that to buy in the cheapest market and to sell in the dearest" is the consummation of human wisdom. The statesman, therefore, still deems himself bound to inquire,... | |
| William Arthur - 1857 - 340 Seiten
...it not, for that great right hand of justice holds a tremendous sword. The maxim, -" It is my duty to buy in the cheapest market, and to sell in the dearest ;" has a manifest basis of truth. It would be wrong for a merchant to go and buy tea at eighteenpence... | |
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