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The Labour Question, Thoughts on Paper Currency and Lending on Interest William Brown (of Montreal ) Pré-visualização indisponível - 2019 |
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amount balance of trade Bank of England benefit bills of exchange borrowed money Britain brought Canada capital cash system cent circulating coinage coins commerce commodities cost credit system debt system degradation demand discount Dominion Directory effective employed England equivalent evil export fact farm flour give gold and silver gold sovereigns hand hired human labour hundred idea increase industry laws of value legitimate lender lending money lending on interest lent loan manufactured means medium of exchange mercantile merchants millions mind modern monetary money on interest money-lender nations nature never oppression paid paper currency paper system payment pencil political economy precious metals principle product of labour profit proper rates of interest receive reduced rency rent seignorage sell society thing thousand dollars tion toil trade transactions true truth United States Mint usury laws value for value wages wealth weight wheat worth
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Página 159 - If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain ; if thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not ; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works...
Página 206 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Página 197 - Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth!
Página 240 - Let the people praise thee, O GOD ; Let all the people praise thee. Then shall the earth yield her increase ; And GOD, even our own GOD, shall bless us.
Página 80 - ... and shall be fined not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned not less than six months nor more than three years.
Página 234 - Christian, is a blessing to which the futurity of mortal man has a claim of more than mortal promise ; if the spirit of evil is, before the final consummation of things, to be cast down from his dominion over men and bound in the chains of a thousand years, the foretaste here of man's eternal felicity, then this system of common instruments to accomplish all the changes of social and friendly commerce will furnish the links of sympathy between the inhabitants of the most distant regions; the metre...
Página 234 - But if man upon earth be an improvable being; if that universal peace which was the object of a Saviour's mission, which is the desire of the philosopher, the longing of the philanthropist, the trembling hope of the Christian, is a blessing to which the futurity of mortal man has a claim of more than mortal promise; if the Spirit of Evil is, before the final consummation of things, to be cast down from his dominion over men, and bound in the chains of a thousand years, the foretaste here of man's...
Página 204 - He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so.
Página 234 - This system approaches to the ideal perfection of uniformity applied to weights and measures; and, whether destined to succeed, or doomed to fail, will shed unfading glory upon the age in which it was conceived, and upon the nation by which its execution was attempted, and has been in part achieved.
Página 205 - He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.