Works, Volume 3G. Bell and sons, 1898 |
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Page 119
... silver , and paper are not tickets or counters for reckoning , recording , and transfer- ring thereof ? 26. Whether the denominations being retained , although the bullion were gone , things might not nevertheless be rated , bought ...
... silver , and paper are not tickets or counters for reckoning , recording , and transfer- ring thereof ? 26. Whether the denominations being retained , although the bullion were gone , things might not nevertheless be rated , bought ...
Page 120
... silver ? 38. Whether it were not wrong to suppose land itself to be wealth ? And whether the industry of the people is not first to be considered , as that which constitutes wealth , which makes even land and silver to be wealth ...
... silver ? 38. Whether it were not wrong to suppose land itself to be wealth ? And whether the industry of the people is not first to be considered , as that which constitutes wealth , which makes even land and silver to be wealth ...
Page 123
... silver ? 73. Whether it would not be more prudent , to strike out and exert ourselves in permitted branches of trade , than to fold our hands , and repine that we are not allowed the woollen ? 74. Whether it be true that two millions ...
... silver ? 73. Whether it would not be more prudent , to strike out and exert ourselves in permitted branches of trade , than to fold our hands , and repine that we are not allowed the woollen ? 74. Whether it be true that two millions ...
Page 127
... silver ? 115. Whether , if the arts of sculpture and painting were encouraged among us , we might not furnish our houses in a much nobler manner with our own manufactures ? 116. Whether we have not , or may not have , all the ne ...
... silver ? 115. Whether , if the arts of sculpture and painting were encouraged among us , we might not furnish our houses in a much nobler manner with our own manufactures ? 116. Whether we have not , or may not have , all the ne ...
Page 137
... silver or paper ? 240. Whether in New England all trade and business are not as much at a stand , upon a scarcity of paper - money , as with us from the want of specie ? 241. Whether it be certain that the quantity of silver in the bank ...
... silver or paper ? 240. Whether in New England all trade and business are not as much at a stand , upon a scarcity of paper - money , as with us from the want of specie ? 241. Whether it be certain that the quantity of silver in the bank ...
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Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; and, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 390 - Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep ; so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.