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... amount PAGE • 15 · 16 . 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 24 . 24 • • 25 25 26 • CHAP . III . - MONEY CAPITAL . The first Saving in a Currency was Money Capital . A Saving in a Currency differs from a Saving made in Commodities Money Capital ...
... amount PAGE • 15 · 16 . 16 17 18 19 20 22 23 24 24 . 24 • • 25 25 26 • CHAP . III . - MONEY CAPITAL . The first Saving in a Currency was Money Capital . A Saving in a Currency differs from a Saving made in Commodities Money Capital ...
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... Amount of Produce Duties of Landlords • Note upon Agricultural Labourers PAGE . 123 . 124 . 129 . 132 . 134 . 137 141 144 . 146 . 146 . 149 . 151 . 157 154 . 156 . 158 . 161 . 162 . 163 . 164 . 165 . 166 CHAP . IV . - AGRICULTURAL LOANS ...
... Amount of Produce Duties of Landlords • Note upon Agricultural Labourers PAGE . 123 . 124 . 129 . 132 . 134 . 137 141 144 . 146 . 146 . 149 . 151 . 157 154 . 156 . 158 . 161 . 162 . 163 . 164 . 165 . 166 CHAP . IV . - AGRICULTURAL LOANS ...
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... which determines prices on the side of the consumer , and his view of the amount of the currency as the effect of prices , must be immovable pillars in the building up of a science of money . One pure b 2 PREFACE . xix.
... which determines prices on the side of the consumer , and his view of the amount of the currency as the effect of prices , must be immovable pillars in the building up of a science of money . One pure b 2 PREFACE . xix.
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... amount of our knowledge . In what may be called the organized statistics of the subject , great praise is due to the paper of Mr. Danson on the Bank of England , in the " Journal of the Statistical Society , " and to the still more ...
... amount of our knowledge . In what may be called the organized statistics of the subject , great praise is due to the paper of Mr. Danson on the Bank of England , in the " Journal of the Statistical Society , " and to the still more ...
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... amount of the currency as a cause operating upon prices . Mr. Blake's service to the science of money was his exhibition of the manner in which capital , being converted into income , as it was in the most rapid manner , by the ...
... amount of the currency as a cause operating upon prices . Mr. Blake's service to the science of money was his exhibition of the manner in which capital , being converted into income , as it was in the most rapid manner , by the ...
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Page 258 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Page 278 - It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
Page 139 - Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. Liberty inheres in some sensible object; and every nation has formed to itself some favorite point, which by way of eminence becomes the criterion of their happiness. It happened, you know, Sir, that the great contests for freedom in this country were from the earliest times chiefly upon the question of taxing.
Page 140 - They took infinite pains to inculcate, as a fundamental principle, that in all monarchies the people must in effect themselves, mediately or immediately, possess the power of granting their own money, or no shadow of liberty could subsist.
Page 184 - Meanwhile, at social Industry's command. How quick, how vast an increase ! From the germ Of some poor hamlet, rapidly produced Here a huge town, continuous and compact, Hiding the face of earth for leagues...
Page 210 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Page 205 - This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Page xxxi - And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness : for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
Page 103 - Mammon led them on : Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell From heaven; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold. Than aught, divine or holy, else enjoy'd In vision beatific : by him first Men, also, and by his suggestion taught, Kansack'd the centre, and, with impious hands.
Page 278 - He that regardeth the day regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it.