A friend sent him David Ricardo's Principles of Taxation and Economy, which aroused him from his lethargy long enough to write a book on the subject.
A friend sent him David Ricardo's Principles of Taxation and Economy, which aroused him from his lethargy long enough to write a book on the subject. After having run away from Manchester Grammar School, he lived off of his meager savings in Bangor, Wales, supplementing his one cup of coffee or tea a day with wild berries and charitable handouts; this caused irreparable stomach damage, and created pains which caused him to become dependent on 320 grains of laudanum daily. FTP, name this author of Confessions of an English Opium Eater.
A friend sent him David Ricardo's Principles of Taxation and Economy, which aroused him from his lethargy long enough to write a book on the subject.
Thomas De Quincey