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" Arkansas know what to ship — we should have a steady market and regular supply. This argument we have heard used by grave persons of reputed common sense, but to us it seems the most notorious and superficial nonsense ; and the only thing that can be... "
The London Quarterly Review - Page 169
1846
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 77

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1846 - 634 pages
...equality of price — Poland would then know what to sow — Arkansas know what to ship — we should have a steady market and regular supply. This argument...from month to month : the problem is to bring these natural and uncontrollable variations to something of a level price in the market — for the purpose...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 77

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, George Walter Prothero - 1846 - 636 pages
...equality of price — Poland would then know what to sow — Arkansas know what to ship — we should have a steady market and regular supply. This argument...from month to month : the problem is to bring these natural and uncontrollable variations to something of a level price in the market — for the purpose...
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation: Being a Concise ...

Charles Tomlinson - 1850 - 276 pages
...the fan in the ventilation of buildings ; but it appears to be in every respect an inferior machine. The only thing that can be said in its favour is, that it is entirely self-acting, requiring no power to set it in motion, * Ure, Philosophical Transactions....
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Archaeologia Cambrensis

1857 - 500 pages
...with the table, the name of an ancient vicar, which had previously been emblazoned on the reading-pew. The only thing that can be said in its favour is, that it is an improvement on the old system ; but when restorations, however humble, are carried out, great...
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Warming and Ventilation: Being a Concise ...

Charles Tomlinson - 1858 - 312 pages
...the fan in the ventilation of buildings; but it appears to be in every respect an inferior machine. The only thing that can be said in its favour is, that it is entirely self-acting, requiring no power to set it in motion, * Ure, Philosophical Transactions....
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Sheep; their history, management, diseases [&c.].

William Reid (wool-broker.) - 1871 - 202 pages
...drains. By this process of drying the soil there is a great amount of valuable pasture land wasted ; and the only thing that can be said in its favour is its cheapness and easy adaptability to the most inaccessible places in the highest hills. There cannot...
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Historical & Descriptive Guide to Carlisle and District

Albert Barnes Moss - 1881 - 324 pages
...whose name it bears. Several rebuildings have taken place since that time — the last being in 1778. The only thing that can be said in its favour is that it is commodious. As for grace — of course architectural grace — it has none. It is a large redstone...
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Thames-side in the Past: Sketches of Its Literature & Society

Francis Cotterell Hodgson - 1913 - 464 pages
...Hawkins's Anecdotes, etc., I, pp. 26-7. of Literature. It is, as I have said, quite unreadable now, and the only thing that can be said in its favour is that it has a good deal of the smoothness of Pope's versif1cation without any of the venom of his satire. There...
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Motor Traction: Dealing with Motor Vehicles for Business Purposes, Volume 16

1913 - 346 pages
...consisting of a sort of screen hanging loosely outside the lower portion of each wheel, is very ineffective. The only thing that can be said in its favour is that it swings out of the way and does not, as a rule, break itself up when the 'bus rubs along the edge of...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 124

William Makepeace Thackeray - 1921 - 778 pages
...cousin, the louse, 'is a beastly Creature and known better in Times and Armies than it is Wellcome,' and the only thing that can be said in its favour is that in medieval times, when godliness and cleanliness were at opposite poles, it kept good company, being...
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