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... disposable money capital , the result of savings which the demand arising from the existing income was not sufficient to draw into employment . Mr. Tooke , though scarcely disposed to allow enough of influence to the facilities of the ...
... disposable money capital , the result of savings which the demand arising from the existing income was not sufficient to draw into employment . Mr. Tooke , though scarcely disposed to allow enough of influence to the facilities of the ...
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... disposable capital on these occasions is always much greater in appearance than in reality , and the speculative impulse soon drives much more of it into income than would have restored the balance between them . Mr. Horsley Palmer said ...
... disposable capital on these occasions is always much greater in appearance than in reality , and the speculative impulse soon drives much more of it into income than would have restored the balance between them . Mr. Horsley Palmer said ...
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... disposable , or waiting for employment , be- fore the outlay on the dock or the railway , is by so much dimi- nished , and the money capital operating in commerce by so much increased . It will be seen presently , that the generation of ...
... disposable , or waiting for employment , be- fore the outlay on the dock or the railway , is by so much dimi- nished , and the money capital operating in commerce by so much increased . It will be seen presently , that the generation of ...
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... disposable capital it is destroyed , the return being merely the bodily and mental work of the receivers , and finally the railway when completed . But out of the new addition made to income , there will be some saving , which is ...
... disposable capital it is destroyed , the return being merely the bodily and mental work of the receivers , and finally the railway when completed . But out of the new addition made to income , there will be some saving , which is ...
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... disposable money capital is no doubt the return of the vast railway expenditure , and of the loan spent in Ireland . If this be so , then , it may be said that we have a very simple receipt for becoming prosperous at any time , for we ...
... disposable money capital is no doubt the return of the vast railway expenditure , and of the loan spent in Ireland . If this be so , then , it may be said that we have a very simple receipt for becoming prosperous at any time , for we ...
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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.