A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Том 2C. Knight, 1839 |
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... amount of this trade , no accounts having been kept of the quantity or value of the articles passing between the two ... amounts to from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 quarters . Subjoined is an ACCOUNT of the Quantity of the various Articles ...
... amount of this trade , no accounts having been kept of the quantity or value of the articles passing between the two ... amounts to from 2,500,000 to 3,000,000 quarters . Subjoined is an ACCOUNT of the Quantity of the various Articles ...
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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 gold or silver ; and , being freely accepted in payment of debts of all sorts , and easily carried about or conveyed by post , they are even more useful to those who originally borrowed them from the bank , and to their ...
... amount of gold or silver ; and , being freely accepted in payment of debts of all sorts , and easily carried about or conveyed by post , they are even more useful to those who originally borrowed them from the bank , and to their ...
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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 had always paid its notes regularly when ...
... 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 had always paid its notes regularly when ...
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... amount and value exactly as a metallic currency would do were the paper currency withdrawn and coins substituted in its stead . The last condition is quite as indispensable to the existence of a well- established currency as the former ...
... amount and value exactly as a metallic currency would do were the paper currency withdrawn and coins substituted in its stead . The last condition is quite as indispensable to the existence of a well- established currency as the former ...
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