 ... the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than that of independent artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 3071831Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...Kings had given them a monopoly of the public mstrnction ; and the spirit of monopolifts is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly,...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation \vill be a voluntary act ; and se deeply vol. a, E £ are... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction ; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive: their work is more costly and...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act ; and so deeply are they rooted in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive: their work is more costly and...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act ; and so deeply are they rooted in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction ; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and Oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than tiiat of independent artists: and the new improvements eo eagerly grasped by the competition of freedom,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act ; and so deeply are they rooted in... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act ; and so deeply are they rooted in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...and kings had gi> them a monopoly of the public instruction ; and the spirit of monopolists is name, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and less productive than that of inj-'. pe idcnt artists ; and the new improvements so eagerly grasped by the competition :: freedom,... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 720 pages
...and less productive than that of independant artists; and the new improvements, so eagerly grasped hy the competition of freedom, are admitted, with slow...the fear of a rival and below the confession of an error."—P. 35. After reading the foregoing passages, shall I be told that Mr. Gibbon had not in view... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1836 - 434 pages
...monopoly. "The spirit of monopolists," to borrow the just and expressive language of Gibbon, "is narrow, lazy, and oppressive. Their work is more costly and less productive than lhat of independent artists ; and (he new improvement so eagerly grasped by Ihe competition of freedom,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction ; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more costly and...of a rival, and below the confession of an error. We may scarcely hope that any reformation will be a voluntary act ; and so deeply are they rooted in... | |
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