 | North American review - 1897 - 808 pages
...G. MULHALL, FSS THE PROGRESS OF BRITISH WARSHIPS' DESIGN. BY ADMIRAL P. II. COI.OMB, KN THE advice to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest is not commonly tendered to those authorities who have ultimately to determine the type of the warships. And... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - Famines - 1848 - 396 pages
...well-being of the community ; and that to remove all restrictions on buying and selling, to allow every one to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest, is the surest way to promote our commercial prosperity. Are we to have a free trade in the products of... | |
 | Jonathan Pim - 1848 - 398 pages
...well-being of the community ; and that to remove all restrictions on buying and selling, to allow every one to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest, is the surest way to promote our commercial prosperity. Are we to have a free trade in the products of... | |
 | Scotland - 1851 - 792 pages
...deeply sunk. It gave them employment, and it secured them " a fair day's wage for a fair day's work." " To buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest," is the stereotyped dogma of the new experimental philosophy. Labour is the commodity which the workman... | |
 | 1851 - 622 pages
...sentiment of our time, is, as all admit, the mania for cheapness, the passion for good bargains. " To buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest," is the maxim on which commerce is founded. Both the economists and their adversaries admit this as a fact.... | |
 | England - 1851 - 776 pages
...deeply sunk. It gave them employment, and it secured them " a fair day's wage for a fair day's work." " To buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest," is the stereotyped dogma of the new experimental philosophy. Labour is the commodity which the workman... | |
 | 1855 - 744 pages
...they fancy ; as to the price, that is their affair and the public's. The whole idea of trade is gain. To buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest, is the fundamental principle of commerce. Shall we blame tradesmen for obtaining the highest price for... | |
 | David George Goyder - Phrenologists - 1857 - 680 pages
...manufacturer, or the shopkeeper, the cry is, ' Every one has a right to do the best he can for himself.' To buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest, is a rule, the justice of which is seldom called in question. It is, however, if fairly analysed, the... | |
 | Sir John Skelton - Essays - 1862 - 512 pages
...and a good deal more to the same effect. To which I reply in my old-fashioned clerical way, that as "to buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest," is the corner-stone of the Christian system, those who do so will find, no doubt, that they have made... | |
 | John William Jackson - Ethnology - 1863 - 354 pages
...almost as thoroughly a British production as constitutional liberty. Free trade is an AngloSaxon idea. To buy in the cheapest market, and sell in the dearest, is the height of our axiomatic wisdom. Had it not been found out long since that to work is to pray, we... | |
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... to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest, is the surest way to promote our commercial prosperity. 
