| Langford Lovell Price - 1891 - 226 pàgines
...and silver money in a country," he observed in a striking image, " may be very properly compared to a highway which, while it circulates and carries t'o...country, produces itself not a single pile of either." It was, he remarked, useful as a " great but expensive instrument of commerce," but, while it was thus... | |
| Charles Arthur Conant - 1896 - 622 pàgines
...country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways... | |
| Charles Arthur Conant - 1896 - 620 pàgines
...country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass aud com of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either. Tbe judicious operations of banking,... | |
| Charles Arthur Conant - 1905 - 466 pàgines
...that "the gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...produces itself not a single pile of either." The same image is gracefully presented by Tucker: * " Its useful functions can be compared to nothing more... | |
| William Frederick Spalding - 1921 - 208 pàgines
...says : " The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...pile of either. The judicious operations of banking (ie judicious issue of notes — author) by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a... | |
| Dorothy Wolff Douglas - 1925 - 406 pàgines
...that: " The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway which, while it circulates and carries to...country, produces itself not a single pile of either." And then he went on to say: "The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed... | |
| Nassau William Senior - 1928 - 440 pàgines
...The gold and silver money (observes Adam Smith) which circulates in any country, may be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...country, produces itself not a single pile of either. The operations of banking, by providing a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert,... | |
| Adam Smith - 2008 - 1148 pàgines
...country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air; enable the country to convert,... | |
| 1850 - 902 pàgines
...country'. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to market all the grass and com of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either. The judicious operations of banking,... | |
| Pierre Guillet de Monthoux - 1993 - 334 pàgines
...any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to the market all the grass and corn of the country, produces...I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon way through the air; enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways... | |
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