A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volume 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854 |
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... amounts to about 10s . per cent . The quantity of gold coin at present in circulation in Great Britain , exclusive of that in the coffers of the Bank of England and of her branches , is supposed to amount to about thirty millions ...
... amounts to about 10s . per cent . The quantity of gold coin at present in circulation in Great Britain , exclusive of that in the coffers of the Bank of England and of her branches , is supposed to amount to about thirty millions ...
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... amount of their share in the capital stock of the company , but for its whole debts , whatever may be their amount . From the first establishment of the Bank of England , down to 1797 , it always paid its notes regularly when presented ...
... amount of their share in the capital stock of the company , but for its whole debts , whatever may be their amount . From the first establishment of the Bank of England , down to 1797 , it always paid its notes regularly when presented ...
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... amount of paper afloat . Hence , in nineteen out of twenty instances , the country banks went on increasing their aggregate issues long after the ex- change had been notoriously against the country , and the Bank of England had been ...
... amount of paper afloat . Hence , in nineteen out of twenty instances , the country banks went on increasing their aggregate issues long after the ex- change had been notoriously against the country , and the Bank of England had been ...
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... amount of secu rities , it must have an equal amount of coin and bullion in its coffers . Hence it is impracticable for the issue department to increase its issues without , at the same time , proportionally increasing its stock of coin ...
... amount of secu rities , it must have an equal amount of coin and bullion in its coffers . Hence it is impracticable for the issue department to increase its issues without , at the same time , proportionally increasing its stock of coin ...
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... amount having since varied with the varying demands for bullion , the sales and purchases of securities , & c . But it is sufficient , in illus- tration of what is now stated , to observe that during the week ended the 25th of July ...
... amount having since varied with the varying demands for bullion , the sales and purchases of securities , & c . But it is sufficient , in illus- tration of what is now stated , to observe that during the week ended the 25th of July ...
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A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2 John Ramsay McCulloch Visualização integral - 1854 |
A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2 John Ramsay McCulloch Visualização integral - 1854 |
A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its ... John Ramsay McCulloch Visualização integral - 1854 |
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Página 481 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
Página 729 - The turtle to her mate hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs: The hart hath hung his old head on the pale; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 93 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Página 3 - ... be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 143 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Página 93 - That the freedom of speech, and debates or proceedings in parliament, ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of parliament.
Página 443 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página 213 - That James VII, being a professed papist , did assume the royal power, and acted as king , without ever taking the oath required by law, and had by the advice of evil and wicked counsellors , . invaded the fundamental constitution of the kingdom, and altered it from a legal limited monarchy to an arbitrary despotic power...
Página 261 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Página 643 - ... by reason of some defects in the law, poor people are not restrained from going from one parish to another and therefore do endeavour to settle themselves in those parishes where there is the best stock, the largest commons or wastes to build cottages, and the most woods for them to burn and destroy, and when they have consumed it, then to another parish, and at last become rogues and vagabonds to the great discouragement of parishes to provide stocks where it is liable to be devoured by strangers...