 ... 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...  Political Economy - Page 526by Arthur Latham Perry - 1883 - 608 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Jackson Pratt - 1801 - 670 pages
...Popes 3nd Kings had given them a monopoly of the public mstrnction ; and the spirit of monopolifts is narrow, lazy, and oppressive : their work is more...grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the... | |
 | 1831 - 576 pages
...' The spirit of monopolists,' to borrow the just and expressive language of Gibbon, ' is nar' row, lazy, and oppressive. Their work is more costly and...grasped by the competition of freedom, ' are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance, in those proud ' corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...societies by the charters of popes and kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction ; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive:...grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...societies by the charters of popes and kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive:...grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...societies by the chartere of popes and 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
...societies by the charters of popes and kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive...grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...societies by the charters of popes and kings had given them a monopoly of the public instruction; and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive...grasped by the competition of freedom, are admitted with slow and sullen reluctance in those proud corporations, above the fear of a rival, and below the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 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
...societies by the charters of Popes and Kings, had given them a monopoly of the public instruction, and the spirit of monopolists is narrow, lazy, and oppressive...work is more costly and less productive than that of independant artists; and the new improvements, so eagerly grasped hy the competition of freedom, are... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1836 - 434 pages
...for tho 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,... | |
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