Southern Quarterly Review, Band 30,Ausgabe 1Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell Wiley & Putnam, 1856 |
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... depreciation of the metallic currency cannot fail to work a large and serious injury . Many questions of importance are suggested by these changes : the adoption of a single standard of value , instead of the double one of gold and ...
... depreciation of the metallic currency cannot fail to work a large and serious injury . Many questions of importance are suggested by these changes : the adoption of a single standard of value , instead of the double one of gold and ...
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... depreciated , and not the silver that has risen in value . The history of our currency from 1834 to 1853 is a confirmation of the conclusion just mentioned . Under the influence of Gen. Jackson and Col. Benton , our Congress passed a ...
... depreciated , and not the silver that has risen in value . The history of our currency from 1834 to 1853 is a confirmation of the conclusion just mentioned . Under the influence of Gen. Jackson and Col. Benton , our Congress passed a ...
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... depreciation in 1856 brought the two together . In the second case , the value at the mint and in the market in 1840 , were the same ; but the depreciation of the gold in 1852 brought it below the market price of silver , and drove the ...
... depreciation in 1856 brought the two together . In the second case , the value at the mint and in the market in 1840 , were the same ; but the depreciation of the gold in 1852 brought it below the market price of silver , and drove the ...
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... been changed by the substitution of gold . Such a decided movement of specie furnishes an unanswerable argument for the depreciation of gold since the discoveries of California and Australia in 1848 and UNIFORM CURRENCY . 181.
... been changed by the substitution of gold . Such a decided movement of specie furnishes an unanswerable argument for the depreciation of gold since the discoveries of California and Australia in 1848 and UNIFORM CURRENCY . 181.
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... depreciation by the quotations in the English market of the price of silver . Gold being the only legal currency of Great Britain , silver is sold in the market as any other commodity is , at the best price that can be obtained . The ...
... depreciation by the quotations in the English market of the price of silver . Gold being the only legal currency of Great Britain , silver is sold in the market as any other commodity is , at the best price that can be obtained . The ...
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Seite 76 - Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Seite 175 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Seite 76 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.
Seite 155 - The public can facilitate this acquisition, by establishing in every parish or district a little school, where children may be taught for a reward so moderate, that even a common labourer may afford it ; the master being partly but not wholly paid by the public ; because, if he was wholly, or even principally paid by it, he would soon learn to neglect his business.
Seite 70 - LORD heard it. 3 (Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth...
Seite 223 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 10 - Oft did a nobleman purchase of a chimney-sweep tulips to the amount of 2000 florins, and sell them at the same time to a farmer ; and neither the nobleman, chimney-sweep, nor farmer had roots in their possession, or wished to possess them.
Seite 180 - Western Africa: its History, Condition, and Prospects. By Rev. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, Eighteen Years a Missionary in Africa, and now one of the Secretaries of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. With numerous Engravings. 12mo, Muslin, $1 25.