| George Chalmers - 1794 - 482 pages
...accumulation of private wealth, Flume talked, in his hiftory, of the pernicious practice of borrowing on parliamentary Jecurity ; a practice, fays he, the...credit, and now threatens the * The account of the Poft-office revenue is ftated, by the Annual Regifter 1773, much higher, miftakingly.very exiftence... | |
| John Adams - Great Britain - 1803 - 486 pages
...parliamentary fecurity. The commencement of this pernicious practice deferves to be noted, as it is more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effefts of it are now become too apparent, and threaten the very exiftence of the nation.... | |
| George Chalmers - 1804 - 488 pages
...borrowing on parliamentary fecurity; a practice, lays he, the more likely to become pewciow the. won? a nation, advances in opulence* and credit, and now threatens the • The account of the Poft-office revenue is flated, by the very extflence of the nation. Even the grave Blackftone, who... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 482 pages
...occurs in this reign.* The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become but too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation.... | |
| David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 514 pages
...occurs in this reign. 3 The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects ef it are now become but too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation.... | |
| George Chalmers - Great Britain - 1812 - 534 pages
...in his history, of the pernicious practice of borrowing on parliamentary security ; a practice, says 'he, the more likely to become pernicious, the more...advances, in opulence, and credit ; and now threatens tlm very existence of the nation. Even the grave Blackstone, who seems to have been infected, by the... | |
| David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 418 pages
...occurs in this reign51. The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become but too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation.... | |
| sir George de Lacy Evans - 1829 - 242 pages
...the reign of Henry VI. The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious the more a nation advances in opulence (!) and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become apparent, and threaten the very existence of the tuition."... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 758 pages
...iccurity, occurs in this reign. The commencement of this practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation."... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1831 - 502 pages
...security, occurs in this reign. The commencement of this practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation."... | |
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