 | James Wilson, Bird Wilson - 1804 - 456 ページ
...the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pasture and corn fields, and thereby to increase very considerably the annual produce of its land and labour." , . The same sensible writer informs us, in another place, that " the i substitution of paper in the room of... | |
 | 1825 - 798 ページ
...violent a metaphor, a soi t of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and...considerably the annual produce of its land and labour t." Thus I have exhausted my first head. The application of it will come afterwards. As to my second,... | |
 | 1824 - 1008 ページ
...violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and...acknowledged, though they may be somewhat augmented, cannot he altogether so secure, when they are thus, as it were, suspended on the Daedalian wings of paper... | |
 | 1828 - 746 ページ
...violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures and...considerably the annual produce of its land and labour.” In a country so highly populated as this, however, every wanton expenditure of its capital is fraught... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - 1827 - 522 ページ
...and industry of the country, however,' he continues, 'though they may be somewhat augmented, can not be altogether so secure, when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper-money, as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver. Over and above the... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - 1827 - 522 ページ
...and industry of the country, however,' he continues, 'though they may be somewhat augmented, can not be altogether so secure, when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of paper-money, as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver. Over and above the... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1828 - 112 ページ
...by providing a sort of waggon- way " through the air, enable the country to con" vert, as it were, a great part of its highways " into good pastures and corn-fields, and " thereby to encrease, very considerably, the " annual produce of its land and labour." " But," he adds, that "... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1830 - 308 ページ
...by pro. " viding a sort of waggon-way through the air, " enable the country to convert, as it were, a " great part of its highways into good pastures...considerably, the annual produce of its land " and labour." " But," he adds that "the com" merce and industry of the country, though they " may be somewhat augmented,... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - 1832 - 530 ページ
...might be devoted to cultivation. ' The commerce and industry of the country, however,' he continues, ' though they may be somewhat augmented, cannot be altogether...as it were, suspended upon the Daedalian wings of papermoney, as when they travel about upon the solid ground of gold and silver. Over and above the... | |
 | Jean Baptiste Say - 1836 - 504 ページ
...might be devoted to cultivation. 4 The commerce and industry of the country, however,' he continues, ' though they may be somewhat augmented, cannot be altogether...when they are thus, as it were, suspended upon the Duedalian wings of paper-money, as when they travel about upon the with a view to justify the suspension... | |
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... to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of... 
