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Jean Baptiste Say : Economie politique
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (1818): 'Tuesday, Sept, 22nd, 1818. 'Rose at 7. Read Say for a couple of hours. [...] 'Rose at 8. Breakfasted, and finished Say's "Economie Politique."'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Say : Economie politique
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (September 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] read over again that part of Say's second volume which refers to consumption. It requires further meditation before I shall have thoroughly comprehended it.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Thursday, October 8th. 'Rose soon after 6. Read the second chapter of Say's "Economie," and I wrote down on paper some remarks on production, after meditating the subject much, as some parts of it are very thorny. I had occasion to differ with some of Say's positions. 'Rose soon after 6. Read over again Say's chapter in capital, and put down some remarks on it in order to clear up my notions on the subject, as I found occasion to suspect the soundness of some I had before entertained [...] 'Rose at 1/2 past 6. Read some more Say on the Division of Labour.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th October, 1818. 'Rose soon after 6. Read Say's chapter on Commercial Industry [...] After dinner read some of Schiller's "Don Carlos," then practiced on the bass from 1/2 past 7 till 9; at 9 I drank tea, then read some more of Say, on the mode in which capital operates.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Threadneedle Street, 14th October, 1818. 'Rose soon after 6. Read Say's chapter on Commercial Industry [...] After dinner read some of Schiller's "Don Carlos," then practiced on the bass from 1/2 past 7 till 9; at 9 I drank tea, then read some more of Say, on the mode in which capital operates.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Thursday, October 15th, 1818. 'Rose at 6. Read Say's chapter on the Accumulation of Capital. Wrote some remarks on the meaning which he annexes to the word unproductive, in which I think he has fallen into some confusion. 'Rose at 6. Read Say's chapter on the Circulation of Commodities, which is admirable; equally deep and accurate.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: George Grote Print: Book
Jean Baptiste Say :
From the diary kept by George Grote for his fiancee, Harriet Lewin (autumn 1818): 'Rose at 1/2 past 6 [...] Read Say and Turgot until 12, and put down some remarks on the manner in which accumulation takes place. Neither Say nor Turgot completely satisfy my mind on this subject [...] Dined alone. Read some scenes in Schiller's "Don Carlos." Considered as complete dramas, I think both "Don Carlos" and "Marie Stuart" are very defective. There is too much mixture of paltry and unimportant intrigue in each [...] There are, however, most masterly single scenes to be found in them [...] After reading this, I practised on the bass for about an hour, then drank tea, and read Adam Smith's incomparable chapter on the Mercantile System until 11, when I went to bed. 'Rose at 6. Read some more of A. Smith on the Mercantile System [...] Dined at 1/2 past 5. Read Don Carlos, and played on the bass for the next two hours, when I went and locked up [the family banking house]; drank tea at 1/2 past 8, and began some more of Say; but I found my mind languid, so that I was obliged to change my study, and took up a dissertation of Turgot, "Sur les valeurs et monnoies," which I read with considerable attention. Went to bed soon after 11.'
