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... given to his rea- soning , render it sometimes a little difficult for readers , unaccustomed to such investigations , readily to follow him . But we can venture to affirm , that those who will give to his works the attention of which ...
... given to his rea- soning , render it sometimes a little difficult for readers , unaccustomed to such investigations , readily to follow him . But we can venture to affirm , that those who will give to his works the attention of which ...
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... of information of the most important kind is contained in Mr. Thornton's well - known work on Paper Credit . Other valuable contributions to mone- tary science are furnished by the evidence given before the XX PREFACE .
... of information of the most important kind is contained in Mr. Thornton's well - known work on Paper Credit . Other valuable contributions to mone- tary science are furnished by the evidence given before the XX PREFACE .
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A Book for the Times John Lalor. tary science are furnished by the evidence given before the various Parliamentary Committees on currency and banking , especially those of 1810 , 1819 , 1832 , and 1841. The witnesses who keep to the ...
A Book for the Times John Lalor. tary science are furnished by the evidence given before the various Parliamentary Committees on currency and banking , especially those of 1810 , 1819 , 1832 , and 1841. The witnesses who keep to the ...
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... given something away , and received not so much an equivalent as the power of taking one when and where he likes best . The currency being obtained , the community , as a whole , has paid away a full equivalent for it out of the produce ...
... given something away , and received not so much an equivalent as the power of taking one when and where he likes best . The currency being obtained , the community , as a whole , has paid away a full equivalent for it out of the produce ...
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... given for the deposits , and the transferable bullion receipt was the parent of the bank - note . It was a mere piece of paper , but it conferred a legal right , which was not exercised , because , while gold awaited it , it served ...
... given for the deposits , and the transferable bullion receipt was the parent of the bank - note . It was a mere piece of paper , but it conferred a legal right , which was not exercised , because , while gold awaited it , it served ...
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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.