...t can be annulled this way – the consent of both parties is required. Many times we realize that we have entered a bad contract, but there is nothin... .... We can pass muster only on that which exists. When we say "this is missing" - we really mean to say: "there is something that IS NOT in this, whi... ... exists with a Platonic Idea or Form (which, according to modern thinking, does not REALLY exist). We feel that the criticism is the product not of ... ...erve a democratic core in conjunction with an oppressed periphery of colonial real estate. The role of imperial power entails the suppression, sub... ... and economic players alike. Well into the 19 century, tangible assets such as real estate and commodities constituted the bulk of the exchanges th... ...s will be determined by arbitrary rules or by reference to extraneous events. Real estate, commodities, and capital goods will revert to their orig... ...s - or maybe humanity - are immortal and, thus, possessed of an infinite horizon. Valuation models often discount an infinite stream of future div... ... in the old economy sense. This scarcity accounts for the stratospheric erstwhile valuations of dotcoms and telecoms. Stock prices were driven by ...

...iography of Benjamin Franklin 9 My name I do put here; Without offense your real friend, It is Peter Folgier.” My elder brothers were all put apprent... ...d lovingly together in wedlock fifty five years. Without an estate, or any gainful employment, By constant labor and industr... ...nd doubter. And being then, from reading Shaftesbury and Collins, be come a real doubter in many points of our religious doc trine, I found this met... ...ose now that I was rather lucky in my judges, and that perhaps they were not really so very good ones as I then esteem’d them. Encourag’d, however, by... ...of setting a boy up in business who wanted yet three years of being at man’s estate. Holmes said what he could in favor of the project, but my father ... ... as might be done in those circumstances. Accordingly, she had given all her estate to charitable uses, reserving only twelve pounds a year to live on... ...y waggon, team, or other horse in the ser vice, the price according to such valuation is to be allowed and paid. 4. Seven days’ pay is to be advanced... ...ir march for the camp. The advertise ment promised payment according to the valuation, in case any waggon or horse should be lost. The owners, howeve... ...aggons and horses was gener ally known, all the owners came upon me for the valuation which I had given bond to pay. Their demands gave me a great de...

.......................................................... 289 NOMINALIST AND REALIST ...................................................................... ...................................................... 301 XX. NONIMALIST AND REALIST ...................................................................... ...t is once admitted to the right of rea- son is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may... ...riest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten these im- ages to some reality in our secret experience, or we shall learn nothing rightly. What b... ...In history our imagination plays us false. Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small ho... ...airs. So do you multiply your presence, or spread yourself throughout your estate. But because of the dual constitution of things, in labor as in life... ...should rest mathematically on our substance. In nature, there are no false valuations. A pound of water in the ocean-tempest has no more gravity than ...

...ividual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for ...

......................................................... 25 CHAPTER V OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THE... ... to contract debts; and what have been the effects of those debts upon the real wealth, the annual produce of the land and labour of the society. BOOK... ...d to be carried furthest in some very trifling ones; not per- haps that it really is carried further in them than in others of more 11 Adam Smith imp... ...he same nominal price is sometimes of very different values. When a landed estate, therefore, is sold with a reservation of a perpetual rent, if it is... ...ublic. At Rome all accounts appear to have been kept, and the value of all estates to have been computed, either in asses or in sestertii. The as was ... ... of Europe, all ac- counts are kept, and the value of all goods and of all estates is generally computed, in silver: and when we mean to express the a... ...tor might either reject such payment altogether, or accept of it at such a valuation of the gold as he and his debtor could agree upon. Copper is not ... ...ng. No creditor could, in this case, be cheated in consequence of the high valuation of silver in coin; as no creditor can at present be cheated in co... ... coin; as no creditor can at present be cheated in consequence of the high valuation of copper. The bankers only would suffer by this regulation. When...

............................. 21 CHAPTER IV OF THE ORIGIN AND USE OF MONEY.......................................................... 25 CHAPTER V OF THE REAL AND NOMINAL PRICE OF COMMODITIES, OR OF THEIR PRICE IN LABOUR, AND THEIR PRICE IN MONEY....................................................... 31 CHAPTER VI OF THE COMPONENT PART OF THE PRICE OF COMMODITIES ......... 45 ...

...onder at: the language of life must naturally receive, as in a mirror, the realities of life. Difficult it is to maintain a just equipoise in any mora... ...ite as good for your countrymen as Jupiter for mine. But, if you have not, really I am sorry for your case; and a very odd case it is: but I don’t see... ...eligion, as they 14 Theological Essays and Other Papers – V olume One are realized in Christianity, for the purpose of contrasting them with the fals... ... believing a miracle, or for expecting a miracle, will greatly disturb the valuation of x (that is, the abstract resistance to credibility), as assume... ...upon every candidate for a fellowship to swear that he does not possess an estate in land of inheritance, nor a perpetual pension amounting to five po... ...an electoral vote: ought not he to hold himself perjured in voting upon an estate often so much below the original 40s. contemplated by Parliament, fo... ...ius Loyola. But that is with us reputed a piratical Casu- istry. The whole estate of a servant lies in his capacity of serving; and often if you tell ... ...become liable continually to new theories, to new combinations, and to new valuations of their moral relations. We have seen some kinds of marble, whe...

...of them had to be content with an abstraction of science which was not yet realized. He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen; ... ... impressed with the unity of knowledge; in the early Church he exercised a real influence on theology, and at the Revival of Literature on politics. E... ...he Republic 5 only but of the whole of life. Such a State is hardly to be realized in this world and would quickly degenerate. To the perfect ideal s... ...what manner of government do you term oligarchy? A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is dep... ... they gain by their ruin; they take in terest from them and buy up their estates and thus increase their own wealth and importance? To be sure. Ther... ... do they not share? I said. Do not their leaders deprive the rich of their estates and distribute them among the people; at the same time taking care ... ...companions, whether male or female, will be maintained out of his father’s estate. You mean to say that the people, from whom he has de rived his bei...

...hey may serve none the less as evidence to the same effect as if they were really “primi- tive” populations. These communities that are without a defi... ...nsion of the ani- mistic savage or barbarian are formidable by virtue of a real or imputed habit of initiating action. This category com- prises a lar... ...ation may be vague and shifting, but the broad distinction is sufficiently real and cogent to influence the barbarian scheme of life. T o the class of... ...her methods than seizure comes to be accounted unworthy of man in his best estate. The performance of productive work, or employment in personal servi... ...feriority, and therefore comes to be accounted unworthy of man in his best estate. By virtue of this tradition labour is felt to be debasing, and this... ... it for the aesthetic purpose. This is more par- ticularly true as regards valuation on grounds so closely re- lated to the aesthetic ground as that o... ...ight be. Confusion is espe- cially apt to arise between these two kinds of valuation, be- cause the value of objects for repute is not habitually dist... ... serviceability — in the manner already spoken of; the resulting composite valuation serves as a judgment of the object’s beauty or its serviceability... ...ife. Those individuals who in spiritual development eventually reach man’s estate, therefore, ordinarily pass through a temporary archaic phase corres...

... way—to the right or to the left— backwards or forwards—of all his seeming realities and all his absolute negations—his shadowy pomps and his pomp- ou... ...e word but the word magnificent, (a word too often and lightly abused.) In reality, speaking of women, I have seen many beautiful figures, but hardly ... ...rd a dim misgiving of 15 Thomas de Quincey their advancing footsteps, and really and indeed, ‘That in to-day already walks to-morrow;’ or whether it ... ...y to being a lady of a certain age,’—here, in the inverse order, given the valuation *Kant applied this illustration to the case where one wor- shipfu... ...oundly the anticipation of a person’s death. Suppose a child, heir to some estate, the subject of 236 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers conversation... ...hing of improbable occurrence. But in the unsettled East, and with the low valuation of human life wherever Mahometanism prevails, insecurity and othe... ... We ourselves knew an amiable and accomplished Scottish family, who, at an estate called Belmadrothie, in memory of a similar prop- erty in Ross shire... ...lanations of this case, we find that it is meant to express, not any over- valuation of riches, but the direct contrary passion. A hu- man spirit is p...

...but with—well, with something quite different, whose existence she had not realized before. Now the old man attacked Miss Bartlett al- most violently:... ...empted to rival the solid comfort of a Bloomsbury boarding-house. Was this really Italy? Miss Bartlett was already seated on a tightly stuffed arm-cha... ... which was proceeding tempestuously at the other end of the room. It was a real catastrophe, not a mere episode, that evening of hers at Venice, when ... ...ish was not disgusted, and said it was just the size of her aunt’s Suffolk estate. Italy receded. They tried to remember the last name of Lady Louisa ... ...oice of a lec- turer, directing them how to worship Giotto, not by tactful valuations, but by the standards of the spirit. “Remember,” he was saying, ...

...ggerated, nothing drawn from the imagi- nation; that it comes short of the reality, rather than over- states a single fact in regard to slavery as it ... ...trembling for you. Some years ago, when you were beginning to tell me your real name and birthplace, you may remember I stopped you, and preferred to ... ...d well; the slaves became as fearful of tar as of the lash. They seemed to realize the impossibility of touching tar without being defiled. The colone... ..., died, leaving only his son, Andrew, and daughter, Lucretia, to share his estate. He died while on a visit to see his daughter at Hillsborough. Cut o... ...l as to the disposal of his property. It was therefore necessary to have a valuation of the property, that it might be equally divided between Mrs. Lu... ...s now between ten and eleven years old. We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked wi... ...ru- talizing effects of slavery upon both slave and slaveholder. After the valuation, then came the division. I have no lan- guage to express the high...

... the worth of our noblest ideal—that of the Saviour, in the light of the new valuations, the poet cries with passionate emphasis in “Zarathustra”: “Ne... ...or elevate life have been seriously undermined. Now, however, a new table of valuations must be placed over mankind—namely, that of the strong, mighty... ...t be regarded as a fanciful figure: it is not a nebulous hope which is to be realised at some in- definitely remote period, thousands of years hence; ... ...ve after. But it is meant to be a possibility which men of the present could realise with all their spiri- tual and physical energies, provided they a... ...iendship as such a sacred institution; and for the first time in his life he realised the whole horror of that loneliness to which, perhaps, all great... ...was his supreme mo- ment; let not the exalted one relapse again into his low estate! There is no salvation for him who thus suffereth from himself, un... ...man,” that is, the valuator. Valuing is creating: hear it, ye creating ones! Valuation itself is the treasure and jewel of the valued things. Through ...

...esponsibility for accuracy and vivid- ness of statement and thought. A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have littl... ... the education which every one gets from living with others, as long as he really lives instead of just continuing to subsist, and the delib- erate ed... ...ers which will secure this abil- ity. If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively... ...social or- der. Everywhere else the mind is distracted and misled by false valuations and false perspectives. A disorganized and factional society set... ...e heralds of this gospel were acutely conscious of the evils of the social estate in which they found them- selves. They attributed these evils to the... ... growth of sub- ject matter in the experience of the learner. In its first estate, knowledge exists as the content of intelligent ability—power to do.... ...ss. Without something of the kind, it is not possible to secure the normal estate of effective learning; namely, that knowledge-getting be an outgrowt... ...ace of the fine arts in the course of study. 1. The nature of standards of valuation. Every adult has acquired, in the course of his prior experience ... ...omed to and has most enjoyed is ragtime, his active or working measures of valuation are fixed on the ragtime level. The appeal actually made to him i...

... example, to decide the important question, whether so- cieties of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and c... ... recommend only such measures as, after the most mature deliberation, they really thought pru- dent and advisable. These and similar considerations th... ... found to be in proportion to the number and weight of the causes, whether real or pretended, which provoke or invite them. If this remark be just, it... ...fficiently numerous to permit very ample collections in that way. Personal estate (as has been before remarked), from the difficulty in tracing it, ca... ...public are derived from this independent title; from his great patrimonial estates; from his family con- nections with some of the chief potentates of... ...itled to a preference. In every country it is a herculean task to obtain a valuation of the land; in a country imperfectly settled and progressive in ... ...ies are increased almost to impracti- cability. The expense of an accurate valuation is, in all situa- tions, a formidable objection. In a branch of t... ...nation. Land taxes are co monly laid in one of two modes, either by actual valuations, permanent or periodical, or by occasional assessments, at the d... ...person is eligible as a representative of a county, unless he possess real estate of the clear value of six hundred pounds sterling per year; nor of a...

...ems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on accident and force....

...to con- viction of sin. If you don’t like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I explained ... ...s she looks. But in a drama which, with all its preoccupation with sex, is really void of sexual interest, good looks are more de- sired than histrion... ...kish one: repent and reform now; for to-morrow it may be too late. This is really the only point on which Don Juan is sceptical; for he is a devout be... ... my Socialism for Millionaires) left word that no idler was to inherit his estate, the bent backs straightened mistrustfully for a moment. Could it be... ...bolic friend, is that you have always been a gull: you take Man at his own valuation. Nothing would flatter him more than your opinion of him. He love...

...y under the heads: first of Different Schools of Thought—Sensation- alist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Sub- jects—Psychology... ...stic tendency of physics is the view of William James and the American new realists, according to which the “stuff” of the world is neither mental nor... ...tal. I wish in these lectures to analyse as fully as I can what it is that really takes place when we, e.g. believe or desire. In this first lecture I... ...e (he continues) that ‘consciousness,’ when once it has evaporated to this estate of pure diaphaneity, is on the point of disappearing altogether. It ... ...ling with the public; yet, if only conscious motives are to count in moral valuation, we shall remain model characters. This is an agreeable doctrine,...