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... nearly the same wants . The tea which pleases the China- man is a luxury in Britain ; while our cutlery , earthenware , and textile produce find a ready market in any part of the earth . Providence seems by this arrangement to have ...
... nearly the same wants . The tea which pleases the China- man is a luxury in Britain ; while our cutlery , earthenware , and textile produce find a ready market in any part of the earth . Providence seems by this arrangement to have ...
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... nearly so low a rate as that at which they can be imported , their domestic cultivation is confined to the purposes of horticultural science . If they could not be produced at home for less than twopence a piece , while at Seville they ...
... nearly so low a rate as that at which they can be imported , their domestic cultivation is confined to the purposes of horticultural science . If they could not be produced at home for less than twopence a piece , while at Seville they ...
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... nearly double what it was towards the close of the last century , and yet it may be safely asserted that all classes live in a state of much greater com- fort now than at any former period . Work is not less abundant , the rate of wages ...
... nearly double what it was towards the close of the last century , and yet it may be safely asserted that all classes live in a state of much greater com- fort now than at any former period . Work is not less abundant , the rate of wages ...
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Money. have laden us with a permanent debt to nearly eight times that amount . If , in spite of such obstacles , we have realized so much prosperity , what would have been the result of uninter- rupted peace ? We cannot hesitate to admit ...
Money. have laden us with a permanent debt to nearly eight times that amount . If , in spite of such obstacles , we have realized so much prosperity , what would have been the result of uninter- rupted peace ? We cannot hesitate to admit ...
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... nearly ten shillings per head of the whole population ; in 1851 it was little more than five shillings and sixpence . At that period the number of depositors in savings ' banks was only 412,217 , and the sum deposited £ 13,507,565 ; in ...
... nearly ten shillings per head of the whole population ; in 1851 it was little more than five shillings and sixpence . At that period the number of depositors in savings ' banks was only 412,217 , and the sum deposited £ 13,507,565 ; in ...
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Adam Smith affluence amount annual arrangement Australian Alps bank notes Bank of England bankers become benevolence capital carried cave of Machpelah century cheap Christ Christian circulation coined commercial commodities competition condition currency demand Divine division of labour employed enterprises entire equal estimate existing expended extent favourable fifty fixed give gold and silver greater hand happiness honour hundred Illyria important increase individuals industry interests issued labour land less mankind manufactures means medium of exchange ment merchant millions mines moral nations nature objects perhaps person piety poods poor population possess pounds poverty precious metals present principle produce profitable proportion purchase pursuits quantity religion remarkable respect rich Roderick Murchison savings Scotland Servius Tullius shillings sitors social society soil soon spirit sterling supply talents tendency thousand tion treasures Ural Mountains vast wages wants welfare wheat whole worldly
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Page 81 - And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold; none were of silver: it was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon.
Page 111 - The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either.
Page 81 - And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pounds of gold went to one shield; and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
Page 80 - And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 174 - ... of theories compassing all knowledge, and of imagery peopling all space, the practical philosopher sent his hearers to their homes instructed in a doctrine cheerful, genial and active, a doctrine which taught them to be sociable and busy, to augment to the utmost of their power the joint stock of human happiness, and freely to take, and freely to enjoy, the share assigned to each by the conditions of that universal partnership. And well did the teacher illustrate his own maxims. The law of social...
Page 122 - ... however, take effect till 1821. Great distress certainly followed the readjustment of the currency, and extensive failures also took place. The whole question as to the propriety or otherwise of the measure has been much argued, and the result is thus summed up by Mr. McCulloch : — " One party contends that Mr. Peel's Act not only put an end to those fluctuations in the value of money which had previously been productive of great mischief, and gave effect to the solemn engagements into which...
Page 103 - But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have : that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Page 102 - From November, 1850, to June, 1851, the Bank of England issued 9,500,000 sovereigns, being at the rate of 18,000,000 a year; and so great is the demand for our gold coins, that...
Page 123 - that in this, as in most other cases of the sort, the statements of both parties have been exaggerated, and that if, on the one hand, the measure has not been so advantageous as its apologists represent, neither, on the other, has it been nearly so injurious as its enemies would have us believe.
Page 174 - If the philosophical poet dismissed his audience under the spell of theories compassing all knowledge, and of imagery peopling all space, the practical philosopher sent his hearers to their homes instructed in a doctrine, cheerful, genial, and active — a doctrine which taught them to be sociable and busy, to augment to the utmost of their power the joint stock of human happiness, and freely to take, and freely to enjoy, the share assigned to each by the conditions of that universal partnership....