1817 · Skopia

Showing 21 works across all media from 1817

Nonfiction · Economics

Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

1817 · 320 pages

Two countries gain by trading even when one makes everything more cheaply. Ricardo's proof turned free trade from a preference into a theorem, and no tariff debate has escaped it.

★ 6.2

Hamlet is a name: His speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.

William Hazlitt

1817

★ 4.2

One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.

Persuasion · 1817

★ 4.0

O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

1817

★ 3.7

When people talk of the Freedom of Writing, Speaking or thinking, I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists: but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more.

Letter to Thomas Jefferson, July 15, 1817 · 1817

★ 3.6

How beautiful is all this visible world! How glorious in its action and itself! But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar, with our mix'd essence make A conflict of its elements, and breathe The breath of degradation and of pride.

1817

★ 3.6

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1817

★ 3.6

Time will rust the sharpest sword, Time will consume the strongest cord; That which moulders hemp and steel, Mortal arm and nerve must feel.

Sir Walter Scott

Harold the Dauntless · 1817

★ 3.5

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Thomas Love Peacock

1817

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete. If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

First Inaugural Address of James Monroe · 1817

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and an usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.

First Inaugural Address of James Monroe · 1817

★ 2.0

Economic literature

Rent is that portion of the produce of the earth, which is paid to the landlord for the use of the original and indestructible powers of the soil.

1817

★ 1.9

For you'll ne'er mend your fortunes, nor help the just cause, By breaking of windows, or breaking of laws.

1817

★ 1.9

To one who has been long in city pent, 'Tis very sweet to look into the fair And open face of heaven.

1817

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1817

★ 1.9

I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination—What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth—whether it existed before or not.

1817

★ 1.9

Comedy naturally wears itself out-destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

William Hazlitt

1817

★ 1.8

If a book is well written, I always find it too short.

1817

★ 1.3

O for a Life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!

1817

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

The American people have encountered together great dangers and sustained severe trials with success. They constitute one great family with a common interest.

First Inaugural Address of James Monroe · 1817

★ 1.2

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