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... standard of their respective mints . In fome it is more , in others it is less worn , clipt , and otherwife degenerated from that standard . But the value of the current coin of every country , compared with that of any other country ...
... standard of their respective mints . In fome it is more , in others it is less worn , clipt , and otherwife degenerated from that standard . But the value of the current coin of every country , compared with that of any other country ...
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... standard of their respective mints , was five and twenty per cent . against England . But the value of the cur- rent coin of England , as we learn from Mr. Lowndes , was at that time rather more than five and twenty per cent . below its ...
... standard of their respective mints , was five and twenty per cent . against England . But the value of the cur- rent coin of England , as we learn from Mr. Lowndes , was at that time rather more than five and twenty per cent . below its ...
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... standards of their respective mints , a fum of English money could not well purchase a fum of French money , containing an equal number of ounces of pure filver , nor confequently a bill upon France for fuch a fum . If for fuch a bill ...
... standards of their respective mints , a fum of English money could not well purchase a fum of French money , containing an equal number of ounces of pure filver , nor confequently a bill upon France for fuch a fum . If for fuch a bill ...
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... standard of their respective mints , and that the one pays foreign bills in this common currency , while the other pays them in bank money , it is evident that the computed exchange may be in favour of that which pays in bank money ...
... standard of their respective mints , and that the one pays foreign bills in this common currency , while the other pays them in bank money , it is evident that the computed exchange may be in favour of that which pays in bank money ...
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... standard value , the state by a reformation of its coin can effectually re - establish its currency . But the currency of a small state , such as Genoa or Hamburgh , can feldom confift altogether in its own coin , but must be made up ...
... standard value , the state by a reformation of its coin can effectually re - establish its currency . But the currency of a small state , such as Genoa or Hamburgh , can feldom confift altogether in its own coin , but must be made up ...
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Página 182 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 181 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Página 1 - THERE is one sort of labour which adds to the value of the subject upon which it is bestowed: there is another which has no such effect. The former, as it produces a value, may be called productive; the latter, unproductive labour.
Página 181 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security ; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain; and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.
Página 182 - To give the monopoly of the home market to the produce of domestic industry, in any particular art or manufacture, is in some measure to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals; and must in almost all cases be either a useless or a hurtful regulation.
Página 16 - It tends therefore to increase the exchangeable value of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country. It puts into motion an additional quantity of industry, which gives an additional value to the annual produce.
Página 186 - Whether the advantages which one country has over another be natural or acquired, is in this respect of no consequence. As long as the one country has those advantages, and the other wants them, it will always be more advantageous for the latter rather to buy of the former than to make.
Página 22 - The uniform, constant, and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived...
Página 80 - According to the natural course of things, therefore, the greater part of the capital of every growing society is, first, directed to agriculture, afterwards to manufactures,. and last of all to foreign commerce.
Página 456 - The assembly which deliberates and decides concerning the affairs of every part of the empire, in order to be properly informed, ought certainly to have representatives from every part of it. That this union, however, could be easily effectuated, or that difficulties and great difficulties might not occur in the execution, I do not pretend. I have yet heard of none, however, which appear insurmountable.