 | Sir Travers Twiss - Economics - 1847 - 356 pages
...seedtime, when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labour in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we shall find the worth and plentiful increase of his actions." It was thus attempted, as it were, by... | |
 | Travers Twiss - Business & Economics - 1847 - 358 pages
...seedtime, when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labour in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we shall find the worth and plentiful increase of his actions." It was thus attempted, as it were, by... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 628 pages
...the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. But when we consider his labours in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours,...the worth and plentiful increase of his actions." (Treasure by Foreign Trade, p. 50, ed. 1C64.) We may here remark, that what has been called the Mercantile... | |
 | Alexander Somerville - Free trade - 1853 - 612 pages
...the ground, we shall account him rather a madman than a husbandman. I'ut when we consider his labours in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours,...the worth and plentiful increase of his actions." (Treasure by Foreign Trade, p. 50, ed. 1664.) We may here remark, that what has been called the Mercantile... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1856 - 692 pages
...we will rather accompt "* their ' him a mad man than a husbandman : but when we consider his labours in the harvest which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentiful cncrease of his actions. CHAP. V. Forraign Trade is the only means to improve the price of our Lands.... | |
 | Thomas Mun - Balance of trade - 1895 - 144 pages
...the ground, we will rather accompt him a mad man than a husbandman : but when we consider his labours in the harvest which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentiful encrease of his actions. CHAP. V. Forraign Trade is the only means to improve the price of our Lands.... | |
 | Thomas Mun - Balance of trade - 1895 - 144 pages
...the ground, we will rather accompt him a mad man than a husbandman : but when we consider his labours in the harvest which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentiful encrease of his actions. CHAP. V. Forraign Trade is the only means to improve the price of our Lands.... | |
 | Sir William Wilson Hunter - India - 1900 - 480 pages
...the ground, we will rather accompt him a madman than a husbandman : but when we consider his labours in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentiful encrease of his actions." l less This early enunciation of the Mercantile System, which anticipated... | |
 | Langford Lovell Price - Commerce - 1900 - 280 pages
...the ground, we will rather accompt him a madman than a Husbandman : but when we consider his labours in the Harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentifull encrease of his actions." Such was the nature of the reasoning by which the " bullionists... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1907 - 376 pages
...the ground, we will rather accompt him a madman than a husbandman; but when we consider his labours in the harvest, which is the end of his endeavours, we find the worth and plentiful encrease of his actions." This early enunciation of the Mercantile System, which anticipated Colbert's... | |
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For if we only behold the actions of the husbandman in the feed-time when he casteth away much good corn into the ground, we will rather accompt him a mad man than a husbandman: but when we consider his labours in the harvest which is the end of his endeavours,... 
