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... debt of the Hon . East India Company - say two hundred and eighty millions of dollars ! England fears its power , and every day her journals caution capitalists against dabbling in foreign speculations . But who can say but what Pereire ...
... debt of the Hon . East India Company - say two hundred and eighty millions of dollars ! England fears its power , and every day her journals caution capitalists against dabbling in foreign speculations . But who can say but what Pereire ...
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... Debt - America and Australia - Telegraphic Cable - Mr . Field's Prophecy . PARIS , FRANCE , January 1 , 1857 . MY DEAR SIR : -Opportune arrivals of Australian treasure ships , more confidence in the stability of the French alliance ...
... Debt - America and Australia - Telegraphic Cable - Mr . Field's Prophecy . PARIS , FRANCE , January 1 , 1857 . MY DEAR SIR : -Opportune arrivals of Australian treasure ships , more confidence in the stability of the French alliance ...
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... the expense of a most un- profitable war ? England's commerce is on the in- crease the nation prospers , and the national debt an stands at four thousand millions of dollars ! How , YOUNG AMERICA IN WALL - STREET . 41.
... the expense of a most un- profitable war ? England's commerce is on the in- crease the nation prospers , and the national debt an stands at four thousand millions of dollars ! How , YOUNG AMERICA IN WALL - STREET . 41.
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... Debt Loan of Mirès - Geo . Hudson - Espartero - O'Donnell -Russia's credit undoubted - Cost of late War - Russian Railways- Cost of English and French lines - The Barings introduce the project in the London market - Austrian Railways ...
... Debt Loan of Mirès - Geo . Hudson - Espartero - O'Donnell -Russia's credit undoubted - Cost of late War - Russian Railways- Cost of English and French lines - The Barings introduce the project in the London market - Austrian Railways ...
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... debt capital of $ 635,000,000 only yields an annual interest of $ 10,000,000 , and that she cannot pay without calling for a foreign loan . Last month the French banker , M. Mirès , outbid the Spanish capitalists , out- bid the ...
... debt capital of $ 635,000,000 only yields an annual interest of $ 10,000,000 , and that she cannot pay without calling for a foreign loan . Last month the French banker , M. Mirès , outbid the Spanish capitalists , out- bid the ...
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Page 117 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
Page 342 - Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent.,— flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., — and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed...
Page 342 - TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon...
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Page 342 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man — taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which bangs the criminal — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice— on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
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