Great Books of the Western World, Band 39Robert Maynard Hutchins Encyclopædia Britannica, 1952 |
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... present proportion seems to be the only method of preventing this incon- veniency . The inconveniency perhaps would be less if silver was rated in the coin as much above its proper proportion to gold as it is at present rated below it ...
... present proportion seems to be the only method of preventing this incon- veniency . The inconveniency perhaps would be less if silver was rated in the coin as much above its proper proportion to gold as it is at present rated below it ...
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... present . Its real value was equal to ten shillings and threepence of our present money . In those ancient times , when the cattle were half starved during the greater part of the winter , we cannot suppose that they were of a very ...
... present . Its real value was equal to ten shillings and threepence of our present money . In those ancient times , when the cattle were half starved during the greater part of the winter , we cannot suppose that they were of a very ...
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... present times . Even though the quality of the cloths , therefore , should be supposed equal , and that of the present times is most probably much superior , yet , even upon this supposi- tion , the money price of the finest cloth ap ...
... present times . Even though the quality of the cloths , therefore , should be supposed equal , and that of the present times is most probably much superior , yet , even upon this supposi- tion , the money price of the finest cloth ap ...
Inhalt
Introduction and Plan of the Work | 1 |
Of Treaties of Commerce 233 Of the Revenue of the Sovereign or Common | 6 |
That the Division of Labour is limited | 8 |
Urheberrecht | |
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