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" A horse is no wealth to us if we cannot ride, nor a picture if we cannot see, nor can any noble thing be wealth, except to a, noble person. "
The Economic Interpretation of History - Page 153
by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1924 - 166 pages
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The Journal of Political Economy, Volume 19

1911 - 952 pages
...making a living," the term living must be taken in its noblest sense. b) "There is no wealth but life," "nor can any noble thing be Wealth except to a noble person" — Ruskin. c) It pays to be good. It is the rogue who loses out in life. The greatest surplus of pleasure...
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Problems and Exercises in Economics

Harry Gordon Hayes - 1916 - 170 pages
...the error. — T 9. " A horse is no wealth to us if we cannot ride, nor a picture if we cannot see, nor can any noble thing be wealth except to a noble person." — RUSKIN, Munera Pulveris, p. 25. Do you agree? Discuss the significance of the statement. 10. Are...
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Outlines of Economics

Richard Theodore Ely, Thomas Sewall Adams, Max Otto Lorenz, Allyn Abbott Young - 1916 - 812 pages
...of the following : "A horse is not wealth to us if we cannot ride, nor a picture if we cannot see, nor can any noble thing be wealth except to a noble person." Ruskin, Munera Pulveris, p. 10. 5. Discuss the following statement : "In 1770 Arthur Young reckoned...
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The Standard of Living in Japan

Kōkichi Morimoto - 1918 - 158 pages
...income and expenditure. Indeed, a knowledge of human wants is the beginning of political economy, and "the goal of all economic development is to make wealth abundant and to make man more able to use wealth correctly. ' '2 Hitherto, however, many economists have devoted...
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Ruskin's Views of Social Justice

John Ruskin - 1926 - 202 pages
...is to say, no wealth. A horse is no wealth to us if we cannot ride, nor a picture if we cannot see, nor can any noble thing be wealth, except to a noble person. As the aptness of the user increases, the effectual value of the thing used increases; and in its entirety...
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The Economics of Instalment Selling: A Study in Consumers' Credit ..., Volume 1

Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman - 1927 - 384 pages
...merely what we do with them, but what they do with us. There is a profound truth in Ruskin's statement: "nor can any noble thing be wealth except to a noble person." In other words, there are two senses in which we should understand poverty : we are poor if we have...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 54; Volume 127

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1923 - 784 pages
...is no effectual value. A horse is no wealth to us if we cannot ride, nor a picture if we cannot see, nor can any noble thing be wealth except to a noble person.' (' Munera Pulveris,' § 14.) Here there is, obviously, an ' intrusion ' of Ethics into Economics ;...
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