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... Government Securities are not Money Money Capital distinct from Commodities It has Laws of its own . Power of monied Capitalists Change from Barter to a Currency Currencies are formed piecemeal A Currency enables each Seller to reserve ...
... Government Securities are not Money Money Capital distinct from Commodities It has Laws of its own . Power of monied Capitalists Change from Barter to a Currency Currencies are formed piecemeal A Currency enables each Seller to reserve ...
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... Government Intervention Objections Agricultural Loans would be repaid CHAP . V. - LOANS FOR COLONIZATION AND EMIGRATION . Principle of Loans applies to other Cases Misdirection of Capital in 1845 Wakefield and Buller on Colonization ...
... Government Intervention Objections Agricultural Loans would be repaid CHAP . V. - LOANS FOR COLONIZATION AND EMIGRATION . Principle of Loans applies to other Cases Misdirection of Capital in 1845 Wakefield and Buller on Colonization ...
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... Government . 307 Roman Catholic Astronomy . 309 Inevitable Decay of Catholicism . 311 Church of Rome in England The Irish People and their Priests Comprehensiveness not Latitudinarian . 313 · 314 . 315 APPENDIX . Note A. - Nature of ...
... Government . 307 Roman Catholic Astronomy . 309 Inevitable Decay of Catholicism . 311 Church of Rome in England The Irish People and their Priests Comprehensiveness not Latitudinarian . 313 · 314 . 315 APPENDIX . Note A. - Nature of ...
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... Government expenditure during the late war , a work of such masterly clearness and force , at least in respect to that particular point , that I cannot explain how it should have failed , as it did , to produce general conviction ...
... Government expenditure during the late war , a work of such masterly clearness and force , at least in respect to that particular point , that I cannot explain how it should have failed , as it did , to produce general conviction ...
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... Government offices . If it were possible to believe that the opposition to Mr. Gladstone in the University of Oxford could succeed , it would throw a still darker gloom over the political horizon ; but even the existence of that oppo ...
... Government offices . If it were possible to believe that the opposition to Mr. Gladstone in the University of Oxford could succeed , it would throw a still darker gloom over the political horizon ; but even the existence of that oppo ...
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Page 264 - 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 286 - 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 137 - 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 138 - 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 101 - 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 182 - 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 216 - Till the war drum throbs no longer and the battle flags are furled In the Parliament of man, the federation of the world.
Page 204 - 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 64 - 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 286 - 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.