 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1826 - 526 pages
...parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is however another and an higher (Economy. (Economy is a distributive virtue,...consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony require' no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1834 - 744 pages
...were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is however another and an liic!¡-: economy. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Рагч;: v requires no providence, no sagacity, no poner- i combination, no comparison, no judgment.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 620 pages
...parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is however another and an shalled us by a divine tactic, not according to our...has, in and by that disposition, virtually subjec sngacity, no powers of comhination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct... | |
 | Tracts - 1836 - 506 pages
...part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is another and a higher economy. Economy is a distributive...judgment. Mere instinct) and that not an instinct of the nobler kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands... | |
 | Canals - 1841 - 142 pages
...it : "Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and " great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Economy " is a distributive virtue and consists not in saving but in selection." Any addition to the cost of machinery will be desirable, as the re« suit of increased business ; each... | |
 | Canals - 1841 - 142 pages
...not economy. Expense, and " great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Economy (24) " is a distributive virtue and consists not in saving but in selection." Any addition to the'cost of machinery will be desirable, as the result of increased business ; each... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...important opportunity, which nature puts into our hands; and which, when lost, is not to be recovered. 1 Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection? True politeness consists in being easy oneself, and making every body about one as easy as one can.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...Parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy, which is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requircs no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...Parsimony 11 not economy. Expense. »nJ great expense, may be an essential |wxrt in tret economy, which is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimonj requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment... | |
 | Charles Theophilus Metcalfe Baron Metcalfe - Canada - 1855 - 518 pages
...discards liberality. "Mere parsimony is not economy; it is separable in theory from it, and in fact it may, or it may not, be a part of economy, according...comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an INCITEMENTS TO PUBLIC ZEAL. 9 instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection.... | |
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Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy in perfection. The other economy has larger views. It demands a discriminating judgment, and a firm, sagacious mind. 
