[185]MacCulloch, loc. cit., p. 471.
[186]Sismondi, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 394-5.
[187]Ibid., pp. 396-7.
[188]Ibid., pp. 397-8.
[189]MacCulloch, loc. cit., pp. 471-2.
[190]Sismondi, op. cit., vol. ii, pp. 400-1.
[191]Sismondi, op. cit., vol. ii, p. 401.
[192]Ibid., pp. 405-6.
[193]It is typical that on his election to Parliament in 1819, when he already enjoyed the highest reputation on account of his economic writings, Ricardo wrote to a friend: ‘You will have seen that I have taken my seat in the House of Commons. I fear I shall be of little use there. I have twice attempted to speak but I proceeded in the most embarrassed manner, and I have no hope of conquering the alarm with which I am assailed the moment I hear the sound of my own voice’ (Letters of D. Ricardo to J. R. MacCulloch, N.Y., 1895, pp. 23-4). Such diffidence was quite unknown to the gasbag MacCulloch.
[194]Nouveaux Principes ..., book iv, chap. vii.