 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 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,...sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgmentMere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false economy... | |
 | Edward Edwards - 1859 - 1196 pages
...of Economy, according to circumstances. Expence, and great expence, may be an essential part in true Economy Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists...Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no power of combination, no comparison, no Judgement. Mere in.stinct, and that not an instinct of the... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 1198 pages
...of Economy, according to circumstances. Expence, and great expeuce, may be an essential part in true Economy Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists...Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no power of combination , no comparison , no judgement. Here instinct, and that not an instinct of the... | |
 | Edward Edwards - Libraries - 1859 - 1192 pages
...according to circumstances. Expence, and great expence, may be an essential part in true Economy Economy in a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving,...Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no power of combination , no comparison , no judgement. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1861 - 568 pages
...leave to tell him, that 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...in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no ?aaacitv, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct... | |
 | Parks - 1871 - 576 pages
...Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy, which is a distributive virtue, aud consists not in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no power of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest... | |
 | Boston (Mass.). Office of the Mayor - Boston (Mass.) - 1883 - 588 pages
...Lord," Burke lays down these wise maxims: "Expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy. . . . Economy is a distributive virtue, and...in saving, but in selection. Parsimony requires no prudence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. Mere instinct, and that... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1917 - 644 pages
...Expense, and great expense, may be " an essential part in true economy . . . mere parsimony is " not economy . . ." Economy is a distributive virtue, and " consists not in saving, but in selection." Hence, then, this is no worship of cheese-paring. It stimulates to a high sense of the functions of... | |
 | Erastus Wiman - Agriculture - 1893 - 398 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, and consists not in saving, but in selection.—Burke. Free Ports. While a high tariff wall, like a solid stone fence, has been stretched... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1896 - 338 pages
...circumstances. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to 5 be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue,...sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, 10 no judgment. Mere instinct, and that not an instinct of the noblest kind, may produce this false... | |
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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. 
