An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great-Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding Reigns: And of the Losses of Her Trade from Every War Since the Revolution |
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... circulation , and more facilities , than in Peter's days ? Has not the sovereign , power from the con- ftitution , over all perfons and all property , within the * Page 2 .. Ruffian Ruffian dominions ? If the ambaffador were to answer ...
... circulation , and more facilities , than in Peter's days ? Has not the sovereign , power from the con- ftitution , over all perfons and all property , within the * Page 2 .. Ruffian Ruffian dominions ? If the ambaffador were to answer ...
Page xxxix
... circulation , during those months . You speak pofitively of the univerfal wreck of credit , in Britain * : you observe , what no other historian has remarked , that " bankruptcies have spread , and are spread- " ing every where , over ...
... circulation , during those months . You speak pofitively of the univerfal wreck of credit , in Britain * : you observe , what no other historian has remarked , that " bankruptcies have spread , and are spread- " ing every where , over ...
Page xliv
... circulation was imped- ed , at a moment of profperity . We fee a smaller number of bankruptcies , in 1781 , when our trade was the most depreffed , during the American war , than in 1772 , and 1773. The two most profper- ous years ...
... circulation was imped- ed , at a moment of profperity . We fee a smaller number of bankruptcies , in 1781 , when our trade was the most depreffed , during the American war , than in 1772 , and 1773. The two most profper- ous years ...
Page xlvii
... circulation , and an impeded circulation is the greatest misfortune , that can afflict a commercial nation . " Impatience changeth fmoake to flame , but jealoufie to hell . " Such , then , were the real caufes of our commer- cial ...
... circulation , and an impeded circulation is the greatest misfortune , that can afflict a commercial nation . " Impatience changeth fmoake to flame , but jealoufie to hell . " Such , then , were the real caufes of our commer- cial ...
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... circulation , than the business of the nation demanded . They destroyed , by their own imprudence , the credit of their own notes , which muft ever depend on the near proportion of the demand to the fupply . The country bankers became ...
... circulation , than the business of the nation demanded . They destroyed , by their own imprudence , the credit of their own notes , which muft ever depend on the near proportion of the demand to the fupply . The country bankers became ...
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