 a miser. . . . Let not the collector ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances, part with any of his treasures. Let him not even have recourse to that practice called barter, which political philosophers tell us is the universal resource...  The Library - Page 7by Andrew Lang - 1881 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1861 - 838 pages
...that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances,...resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means of exchange. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1862 - 410 pages
...that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances,...resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means of exchange. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1862 - 410 pages
...that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances,...resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means of exchange. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1863 - 428 pages
...that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances,...resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means of exchange. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1863 - 436 pages
...passion that never cloys. 104 UlS FUNCTIONS. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless irksome urgent and necessary circumstances, part •with— any of his treasures. Let him not even have re-— course to that practice called barter, which political—- philosophers tell us is the universal... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1882 - 568 pages
...that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances,...resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means of exchange. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1883 - 432 pages
...that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances,...resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means of exchange. Let him confine all liis transactions in the market... | |
 | Halkett (i.e. Richard Halkatt Lord (ed.)) - American literature - 1883 - 602 pages
...speaks very distinctly in "The Book-hunter:" "Where money is the object let a man speculate or Iwunie a miser Let not the collector ever, unless in some...part with any of his treasures. Let him not even have recoil rse to that praet lee cal led barter, which political philosophers tell us is the universal... | |
 | Bibliography - 1886 - 230 pages
...recommends that " where money is the object, let a man speculate or become a miser." Let not a collector " even have recourse to that practice called barter, which political philosophers tell us was the universal expedient of mankind preparatory to the invention of money. Let him confine all his... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Bibliomania - 1887 - 446 pages
...that the accumulation of money is the only passion that never cloys. Let not the collector, therefore, ever, unless in some urgent and necessary circumstances,...resource of mankind preparatory to the invention of money as a circulating medium and means of exchange. Let him confine all his transactions in the market to... | |
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