 | 1879 - 592 ページ
...half of their present comforts, reasoning, as I always do, upon the assumption that gold will fall to the half of its present value. They will be flung...measure, down to a lower station, and without ever havin'j the chance of preparation ; for it is the very essence of changes of this kind, subjected as... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1863 - 94 ページ
...transition will be an interval painful to pass, and will be marked by innumerable shocks and sufferings " The value of all properties will be subjected to a...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." Mr. Cobden, in the preface to his translation of Chevalier's wellknown Essay (p. ix.), expresses a... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1863 - 94 ページ
...innumerable shocks and sufferings " The value of all properties will be subjected to a painful uncertaintyj and to injurious fluctuations. It will be still worse...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." Mr. Cobden, in the preface to his translation of Chevalier's wellknown Essay (p. ix.), expresses a... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 594 ページ
...this transition period. He says : " It will be still worse for those whose incomes consist of a sum fixed in advance ; they will live in a perpetual state...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." And again, — "We might add to this list, in a great measure, the multitude of Public Servants, Civil... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 580 ページ
...; they will live in a perpetual state of trouble, anxiety, and uneasiness. They will sink by who' e sections from their present state to another in which...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." And again, — "We might add to this list, in a great measure, the multitude of Public Servants, Civil... | |
 | 1879 - 590 ページ
...half of their present comforts, reasoning, as I always do, upon the assumption that gold will fall to the half of its present value. They will be flung...the very essence of changes of this kind, subjected aa they are to many opposing influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course.' This was a... | |
 | Robert Hogarth Patterson - 1882 - 510 ページ
...half of their present comforts, — reasoning, as I always do, upon the assumption that gold will fall to the half of its present value. They will be flung...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." This was a one-sided, a purely capitalist's view of the matter ; for undoubtedly a fall in the value... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1884 - 522 ページ
...an interval painful to pass over, and will be marked by innumerable shocks and sufferings. . . . " The value of all properties will be subjected to a...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." 'Cobden, in the preface (p. ix) to his translation of Chevalier's Essay, expresses a similar opinion... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1884 - 524 ページ
...(napoleons or sovereigns) fixed in advance. They will live in a perpetual state of trouble, auxiety, and uneasiness. They will sink by whole sections from...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." Cobden, in the preface (p. ix) to his translation of Chevalier's Essay, expresses a similar opinion... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - 1884 - 552 ページ
...assumption that gold falls to the half of its present value. They will be flung headlong, without rulo or measure, down to a lower station, and without ever...influences, to pursue an irregular and disorderly course." Cobden, in the preface (p. ix) to his translation of Chevalier's Essay, expresses a similar opinion... | |
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I have already alluded, whose incomes consist of a sum of money (napoleons or sovereigns) fixed in advance. They will live in a perpetual state of trouble, anxiety, and uneasiness. They will sink by whole sections from their present state to another,... 