 ... than one will have an interest in it. They will in all probability sell it and divide the proceeds. The price which a bookseller will give for it will bear no proportion to the sum which he will afterwards draw from the public, if his speculation...  Hansard's Parliamentary Debates - Page 323by Great Britain. Parliament - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...afterwards draw from the public if his speculation proves successful. He will give little, if anything, more for a term of sixty years than for a term of...value of a distant advantage is always small ; but where there is great room to doubt whether a distant advantage will be any advantage at all, the present... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...afterwards draw from the puUic if his speculation proves successful. He will give little, if anything, more for a term of sixty years than for a term of thirty or five and twenty. The present value of a distant advantage is always small ; hut when there is great... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...afterwards draw from the public if his speculation proves successful, He will give little, if anything, with all the nobleness of expression, five and twenty. The present value of a distant advantage is always small ; but when there is great... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...afterwards draw from (he public if his speculation proves successful. He will give little, if anything, more for a term of sixty years than for a term of thirty or five-nnd-twenty. The present value of a distant advantage is always small ; but where there is great... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1889 - 796 pages
...afterwards draw from the public, if his speculation proves successful. He will give little, if anything, more for a term of sixty years than for a term of thirty or five and twenty. The present value of a distant advantage is always small ; but when there is great... | |
 | Debates and debating - 1897 - 232 pages
...afterward draw from the public, if his speculation proves successful. 25 He will give little, if anything, more for a term of sixty years than for a term of...whether a distant advantage will be any advantage at 30 all, the present value sinks to almost nothing. Such is the inconstancy of the public taste that... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1913 - 140 pages
...afterwards draw from the public, if his speculation proves successful. lie will give little, if anything, more for a term of sixty years than for a term of...but, when there is great room, to doubt whether a distantadvantage will be any advantage at all, the present value sinks to almost nothing. Such is the... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Copyright - 1914 - 374 pages
...afterwards draw from the public, if his speculation proves successful. He will give little, if anything, 20 more for a term of sixty years than for a term of...all, the present value sinks to almost nothing. Such 25 is the inconstancy of the public taste, that no sensible man will venture to pronounce, with confidence,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1914 - 212 pages
...afterwards draw from the public, if his speculation proves successful. He will give little, if anything, more for a term of sixty years than for a term of thirty or five and twenty. The present value of a distant advantage is always small; but when there is great... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 156 pages
...little, if anything, more for a 15 term of sixty years than for a term of thirty or five and twenty. The present value of a distant advantage is always...advantage at all, the present value sinks to almost 20 nothing. Such is the inconstancy of the public taste that no sensible man will venture to pronounce,... | |
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