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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 6 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
questions were put in the forefront of the battle and engaged the attention of the leading statesmen. Of these only a very few were pre-eminent as economic thinkers. Jefferson never pretended to grasp economic problems, his only contributions to the subject being found in his Notes on Virginia (786), which disclose a striking incapacity to foretell the future industrial development of the country. Many years later Jefferson, as he tells us himself, carefully revised and corrected Destutt Tracy's A treatise on political economy (Georgetown, D. C., 1817), which was translated from the unpublished French original. There is, however, no evidence that Jefferson profited from its perusal. On the other hand, Hamilton showed in his great state papers and notably in his two Reports on public credit (1790, 1795), as well as in his Report on manufactures (1791), that he possessed a remarkable acquaintance with economic principles as then understood. There is in fact no statesman of the ei
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
, detective, 5 Tony the Bootblack, 287 Tools and the man, 217 Too much Johnson, 285 Torrence, Ridgely, 267 Torrey, Bradford, 165 Tourgee, Albion Winegar, 86, 352 Townsend, Edward Waterman, 26 Toymaker of Niiremburg, the, 292 Tracy, Destutt, 429-30 Trades Review, 438 Tragic muse, the, 103 Trail of the Lonesome Pine, 288 Train, George Francis, 145 Traits of American Indian life and character by a Fur trader, 137 Tramp abroad, a, 10 Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are mthe, 19 Transylvania University, 619 Traveller from Altruria, a, 83 Travels in the great Western Prairies, 137 Treatise on Political Economy, A (Opdyke), 435 Treatise on political economy (Say), 431 Treatise on political economy, a (Tracy), 430 Treatise on sociology, 437 Trendelenburg, 240 Trer auf'n Eisen, a, 602 Trescott, W. H., 341 Tribune (Chicago), 22, 323, 334 Tribune (New York), 5, 22, 40, 45, 114, 321, 322, 324, 437 Tribune Primer, the, 27 Trinity C