The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 261852 |
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... supply of gold - Effect of exports of domestic coin as compared with shipments of foreign - Total production of do- mestic gold from 1793 to the close of 1851 - The natural course of trade sure to be the most prosperous - Commerce of ...
... supply of gold - Effect of exports of domestic coin as compared with shipments of foreign - Total production of do- mestic gold from 1793 to the close of 1851 - The natural course of trade sure to be the most prosperous - Commerce of ...
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... supply of human wants and comforts , which make up the multiform exportation of Great Bri- tain , as $ 94 would have done thirty years ago , it is evidence the real wages , that is , the amount of supplies at the command of the laborer ...
... supply of human wants and comforts , which make up the multiform exportation of Great Bri- tain , as $ 94 would have done thirty years ago , it is evidence the real wages , that is , the amount of supplies at the command of the laborer ...
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... supply of our staple article of food , " and how exceedingly great the increase of agricultural production must have been to have thus effectively kept in a state of independence a popula- tion which has advanced with so great a degree ...
... supply of our staple article of food , " and how exceedingly great the increase of agricultural production must have been to have thus effectively kept in a state of independence a popula- tion which has advanced with so great a degree ...
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... supply of books . And what is capital but the sum total of commodities , some one or more of which is every day losing a part of its value by reason of the introduction of improved processes and machinery , by which they can be ...
... supply of books . And what is capital but the sum total of commodities , some one or more of which is every day losing a part of its value by reason of the introduction of improved processes and machinery , by which they can be ...
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... supply ; that is to say , the quantity in circulation , and the aggregate of wants which money is designed to supply . To require for monetary value any other guaranty than that proceeding from demand and supply , is to return to the ...
... supply ; that is to say , the quantity in circulation , and the aggregate of wants which money is designed to supply . To require for monetary value any other guaranty than that proceeding from demand and supply , is to return to the ...
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Page 25 - of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also
Page 25 - that the citizens of the United States should have the right " to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish ; and also
Page 569 - The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunt in dale or piny mountain, Or forest, by slow stream or pebbly spring, Or
Page 25 - or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose, with the inhabitant«, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 455 - As the colony increases, the profits of stock gradually diminish. When the most fertile and best situated lands have been all occupied, less profit can be made by the cultivation of what is inferior, both in soil and situation, and less interest can be afforded for the stock which is so employed.
Page 42 - they can earn in four days what will maintain them through the week, will be idle the other three. This, however, is by no means the case with the greater part. Workmen, on the contrary, when they are liberally paid by the piece, are very apt to over-work themselves, and to ruin their health and constitution in a few years."— Wealth
Page 590 - and mills or thousandths."* That the " dollars or units each be of the value of a Spanish milled dollar, as the same is now current, and to contain three hundred and seventy-one grains and four-sixteenths parts of a grain of pure, or four hundred and sixteen grains of standard