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... effects Payment Bank Credits from Loans . Bank Loans an addition to the Aggregate of Money This third Element of Money very variable London Private Banks form one Bank Mr. Newmarch's Estimate of Discounts Bankers an essential Part of ...
... effects Payment Bank Credits from Loans . Bank Loans an addition to the Aggregate of Money This third Element of Money very variable London Private Banks form one Bank Mr. Newmarch's Estimate of Discounts Bankers an essential Part of ...
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... Effect of new Incomes upon Aggregate of Income CHAP . V. - THE REVOLUTION OF CAPITAL AND INCOME . Law of Revolution • Verification of the Law of Revolution Money Capital squandered returns into new Hands The Revolution of Capital and ...
... Effect of new Incomes upon Aggregate of Income CHAP . V. - THE REVOLUTION OF CAPITAL AND INCOME . Law of Revolution • Verification of the Law of Revolution Money Capital squandered returns into new Hands The Revolution of Capital and ...
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... Effect of Remission on Producers and Consumers Questions of Taxation subordinate CHAP . III . - RURAL LIFE AND EMPLOYMENTS . Rural Scenery of England Its Moral and Social Effects Present State of Agriculture A Stimulus wanted Transfer ...
... Effect of Remission on Producers and Consumers Questions of Taxation subordinate CHAP . III . - RURAL LIFE AND EMPLOYMENTS . Rural Scenery of England Its Moral and Social Effects Present State of Agriculture A Stimulus wanted Transfer ...
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... Effects of the new Gold in Australia Probable Effects of Emigration Importance of the Supply of Wool Supply of Cotton CHAP . VI . - LOANS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS . A Town Life the future Life of England . Evils of a Town Life ...
... Effects of the new Gold in Australia Probable Effects of Emigration Importance of the Supply of Wool Supply of Cotton CHAP . VI . - LOANS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS . A Town Life the future Life of England . Evils of a Town Life ...
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... Effect of disclaiming Foreign Relations CHAP . IX . - NATIONAL DEFENCES . . 223 225 . 227 . 230 Use of Tools Naval Administration Admiralty Reform . Naval Estimates in the House of Commons 232 234 235 . 236 Military Discipline Men ...
... Effect of disclaiming Foreign Relations CHAP . IX . - NATIONAL DEFENCES . . 223 225 . 227 . 230 Use of Tools Naval Administration Admiralty Reform . Naval Estimates in the House of Commons 232 234 235 . 236 Military Discipline Men ...
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Page 268 - 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 290 - 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 141 - 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 142 - 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 105 - Mammon led them on, Mammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven; for even 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 enjoyed In vision beatific.
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 27 - The history of what we are in the habit of calling the " state of trade " is an instructive lesson. We find it subject to various conditions which are periodically returning ; it revolves apparently in an established cycle. First we find it in a state of quiescence, — next improvement, — growing confidence, — prosperity, — excitement, — overtrading, — convulsion, — pressure, — stagnation, — distress, — ending again in quiescence.
Page 68 - Ho, no, no, no, no ; — my meaning, in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me, that he is sufficient...
Page 290 - For one believeth that he may eat all things : another who is weak eateth herbs. Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not ; and let not him which eateth not judge him that eateth : for God hath received him.
Page 268 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but beauty still is here.