 The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed...  Money in Its Relations to Trade and Industry - Stran 20avtor: Francis Amasa Walker - 1879 - 339 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 strani
...leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value <5f money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our proper- , ty ; as letters were invented to express our ideas ; and both these institutions, by giving... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 strani
...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of .money has been settled by general consent...passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply thfrobjeets they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver is in a great measure factitious;... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 strani
...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than • Tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants, and our property; as letter* were invented to express oar ideas : and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 strani
...leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The valne of money has been settled by general consent to express...contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver is in a great measure factitious ; but it would be impossible... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 588 strani
...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our proferty, as letters were invented to express our ideas : and both these institutions, y giving a more... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 strani
...reflection such leading facts convey more instruction than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent...contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver is in a great measure factitious ; but it would be impossible... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 668 strani
...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent...energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have con-_ tributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver... | |
 | Francis Amasa Walker - 1877 - 578 strani
...raison de lour nature particuliere." — [Sur la formation et la distribution cles richesses, xli.] 2 " The value of money has been settled by general consent...multiply the objects they were designed to express." — [Gibbon, chap, ix.] dustry ; the artisans were men known to each other, each working by himself... | |
 | Ernest Seyd - 1879 - 122 strani
...STANFOJ; CHARING CROSS, 185 600075791 Z DECLINE OF PROSPERITY: ITS INSIDIOUS CAUSE AND OBVIOUS REMEDY. " The value of money has been settled, by general consent. to express our wants and onr property, as letters were invented to express our ideas ; and both these institutions, by giving... | |
 | Aristotle, William Lambert Newman - 1887 - 506 strani
...depreciation of stock. ' The value of money,' says Gibbon (Decline and Fall, c. 9 — vol. i. p. 356), ' has been settled by general consent to express our...contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.' See also the quotation from Xen. de Vectigalibus given in the note on 1257 b 33. 3. (лес... | |
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