The Scotch Banker: Containing Articles Under that Signature on Banking, Currency, &cJ. Ridgway, 1832 - 175 páginas |
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... respective trades was profitable and secure . But when the dear and scarce money comes to be established , the fall of prices consequent upon it deprives them of the whole of their property , instead of a part . It takes away the profit ...
... respective trades was profitable and secure . But when the dear and scarce money comes to be established , the fall of prices consequent upon it deprives them of the whole of their property , instead of a part . It takes away the profit ...
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... respective concerns . But now the ancient maxims of political economy are set aside ; " the solid principles of banking " are said to be only understood by public bodies ; and branch banks and joint stock companies are presumed to be ...
... respective concerns . But now the ancient maxims of political economy are set aside ; " the solid principles of banking " are said to be only understood by public bodies ; and branch banks and joint stock companies are presumed to be ...
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... respective oc- cupations to a precarious and inadequate profit , or rather to a probable loss . But whilst masses of lenders are thus forced into the markets of interest , the usual number of borrowers in those markets is decreased by ...
... respective oc- cupations to a precarious and inadequate profit , or rather to a probable loss . But whilst masses of lenders are thus forced into the markets of interest , the usual number of borrowers in those markets is decreased by ...
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... respective productions which their respective wants require . This is a healthy cheapness , -solid , sound , real , and beneficial ; but the other is diseased , noxious , and injurious in all parts , and to all parties . Mutatis ...
... respective productions which their respective wants require . This is a healthy cheapness , -solid , sound , real , and beneficial ; but the other is diseased , noxious , and injurious in all parts , and to all parties . Mutatis ...
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... human hand is de- prived , as it were , of its usual power , and conse- quently each individual receives a less individual distribution of the respective productions which his respective wants require A FEW FACTS . 59.
... human hand is de- prived , as it were , of its usual power , and conse- quently each individual receives a less individual distribution of the respective productions which his respective wants require A FEW FACTS . 59.
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Términos y frases comunes
Act of Parliament adopted agricultural amount ancient level bank notes Bank of England Bank Restriction Act borrow branch banks bullion burthens bushel of wheat capital cent cheap circulation Cobbett commodities compelled contracted Corn Laws country bankers creditor debtor depreciation duced Duke of Wellington enabled England notes English bankers existed famine former fundowners gold coins Government hands heavy gold increased industry injury interest issue Jews kind land landowners late panic Lord Castlereagh Lord Goderich Lord Liverpool markets means measure metallic standard millions per annum millions sterling national debt necessary obligations occasioned operation paper money paper system Parliament payment period poor population possible pound notes preserved price of wheat prices of property probable produce productive classes productive power profit prosperity reduced rency render rents restoration ruin SCOTCH BANKER Sir HENRY PARNELL society standard of value supply taxation taxes things tion wants whilst whole worthless rags
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Página iii - And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him ; and spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke ; my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
Página iii - Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand...
Página 137 - These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions ; and therefore persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order ; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out, when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind, and a far more extensive comprehension of things, is requisite, than ever office gave, or than office can ever give.
Página xx - Observations on Paper Money, Banking, and Over-Trading, including those parts of the Evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons which explain the Scotch System of Banking,' London, 1827, 8vo ; another edition, 1829, 8vo.
Página iii - At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release. And this is the manner of the release : Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it ; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother ; because it is called the Lord's release.
Página xvii - Session papers" were very different things. With these slight exceptions we take the opinion of the country, and of every part of the world where the language is understood, to be that of the most unbounded admiration of these exquisite specimens of judicial oratory, — and of great obligations to the editor of the collection.
Página 137 - But it may be truly said that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
Página xx - Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, And image charms he must behold no more ; Such if there be, who loves so long, so well ; Let him our sad, our tender story tell ; The well-sung woes will soothe my pensive ghost ; He best can paint 'em who shall feel 'em most.
Página xix - The Life of William Lord Russell; with some Account of the Times in which he lived.
Página xix - How rarely reason guides the stubborn choice, Rules the bold hand, or prompts the suppliant voice, How nations sink, by darling schemes oppress'd, When vengeance listens to the fool's request. Fate wings with ev'ry wish th...