 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...Mature and Necessity of a Paper Currency. It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened...no writers among them that were able to answer it, thenopposition slackened, and the point was carried by a majority in the House. My friends there, who... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - United States - 1840 - 586 pages
...Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency. It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened...My friends there, who considered I had been of some sen-ice, thought fit to reward me, by employing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job, and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 674 pages
...Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency"* It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened...the point was carried by a majority in the House. • See Vol. H. p. 253. "It is little known, or set down to the commendation of Franklin, that, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1840 - 668 pages
...Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency."* It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened...the point was carried by a majority in the House. - See Vol. II. p. 253. " It is little known, or set down to the commendation of Franklin, that, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 688 pages
...was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it incceased and strengthened the clamor for more money ; and,...the point was carried by a majority in the House. • See Vol. II. p. 253. "It is little known, or set down to the commendation of Franklin, that, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1848 - 676 pages
...Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency"* It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened...the point was carried by a majority in the House. • See Vol. II. p. 253. "It is little known, or set down to the commendation of Franklin, that, when... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency." It was well received by the common people in general; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened the clamor for more mtmey; and, they happening to have no writers among them that were able to answer it, their opposition... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency." It was well received by the common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened...been of some service, thought fit to reward me, by emploj'ing me in printing the money ; a very profitable job, and a great help to me. This was another... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld - 1856 - 584 pages
...Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency." It was well received by the common people in general; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened...slackened, and the point was carried by a majority hi the House. My friends there, who considered I had been of some service, thought fit to reward me... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...common people in general ; but the rich men disliked it, for it increased and strengthened the clamour for more money; and they happening to have no writers...able to answer it, their opposition slackened, and trie point was carried by a majority in the house. My friends there, who considered I had been of some... | |
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Our debates possessed me so fully of the subject that I wrote and printed an anonymous pamphlet on it, entitled The Nature and Necessity of a Paper Currency. 
