 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1820 - 486 pages
...into each other, can judge how much they would have been aided, had their several subdivisions been in a decimal ratio. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The Financier,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 984 pages
...into each other, can judge how much they would have been aided, had their several subdivisions been in a decimal ratio. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The Financier,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Constitutional history - 1829 - 486 pages
...into each other, can judge how much they would have been aided, had their several subdivisions been in a decimal ratio. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The Financier,... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 990 pages
...into each other, can judge how much they would have been aided, had their several subdivisions been in a decimal ratio. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The Financier,... | |
 | Commerce - 1844 - 598 pages
...we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The financier, therefore, in his report,...should be in decimal proportions to one another." * This last coin was to be of gold. He apologized for introducing the name of crown, in a country where... | |
 | Commerce - 1844 - 602 pages
...The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The financier, therefore, in his report, well proposes that our coins should be in... | |
 | John Macgregor - Commercial treaties - 1846 - 658 pages
...The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The financier, therefore, in his report, well proposes that our coins should be in... | |
 | History, Modern - 1848 - 622 pages
...The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The financier, therefore, in his report, well proposes that our coins should be in... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1853 - 660 pages
...into each other, can judge how much they would have been aided, had their several subdivisions been in a decimal ratio. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The Financier,... | |
 | Commerce - 1860 - 796 pages
...difficult modes of operation, it is most rational to choose the easy. The financier, (Mr. Morris.) therefore, in his report, well proposes that our coins...should be in decimal proportions to one another." Congress, in 1785, adopted this report of Mr. Jefferson, and in the following year made legal provisions... | |
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Pounds, shillings, pence and farthings of these several States, into each other, can judge how much they would have been aided, had their several subdivisions been in a decimal ratio. Certainly, in all cases, where we are free to choose between easy and... 
