politico-peripatetic

Updated: August 3, 2026

The squire, though perhaps he had never read Machiavel, was, however, in many points, a perfect politician. He strongly held all those wise tenets, which are so well inculcated in that Politico-Peripatetic school of Exchange-alley. He knew the just value and only use of money, viz., to lay it up.

Henry Fielding - History of Tom Jones, a Foundling