The New Golden Age and Influence of the Precious Metals Upon the World, 第 2 巻Blackwood, 1882 - 542 ページ |
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alike America amount annual supply average Bank of England Bank of France Bank-rate became become Britain British British Isles California and Australia capital cent Chevalier chiefly circulation civilised classes commercial commodities consequence contemporaneous Cotton Famine crisis currency dearth demand demonetisation depreciation discounts discovery distress drain East Eastern trade effect employment enterprise epoch Europe exchange existing stock expenditure export of specie extent fact fall of prices foreign trade France gold and silver Gold as Money Gold-discoveries gold-fields gold-mines Golden Age Government human important increased India labour less loans mankind manufacturing ment merely metallic money millions sterling mines monetary system operations ordinary owing paper-money payments period population portion precious metals present century produce production of gold profitable prosperity Raffaele Rubattino railways remarkable scarcity Silver Age stock of gold supply of gold tion value of gold value of money vast wealth Western world
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56 ページ - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
82 ページ - But when the directors are now to be called upon, in the new situation in which they are placed by the Restriction Act, to procure a fund for supporting the whole national currency, either in bullion or...
273 ページ - Accordingly we find, that, in every kingdom, into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, every thing takes a new face: labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.
92 ページ - The increased wealth of the middle classes is so obvious, that we can neither walk the fields, visit the shops, nor examine the workshops and storehouses, without being deeply impressed with the changes which a few years have produced. We see the fields better cultivated, the barns and stackyards more fully stored, the horses, cows, and sheep more abundant and in better condition, and all the implements of husbandry improved in their order, their construction, and their value. In the cities, towns,...
82 ページ - Notes, with whatever distress such limitation may be attended to individuals, or the community at large ; they feel it their bounden and imperious duty to state their sentiments thus explicitly, in the first instance to His Majesty's Ministers, on this subject, that a tacit consent and concurrence at this juncture may not, at some...
450 ページ - When, on the contrary, the wealth of any 'country increases, when the annual produce of its labour becomes gradually greater and greater, a greater quantity of coin becomes necessary in order to circulate a greater quantity of commodities ; and the people, as they can afford it, as they have more commodities to give for it, will naturally purchase a greater and a greater quantity of plate. The quantity of their coin will increase from necessity; the quantity of their plate from vanity and ostentation,...
184 ページ - In Stockport, more than half the master-spinners had failed before the close of 1842 ; dwelling-houses to the number of 3,000 were shut up ; and the occupiers of many hundreds more were unable to pay rates at all. Five thousand persons were walking the streets in compulsory idleness...
282 ページ - But notwithstanding this conclusion which must be allowed just, it is certain that since the discovery of the mines in America, industry has increased in all the nations of Europe, except in the possessors of those mines; and this may justly be ascribed, amongst other reasons, to the increase of gold and silver.
402 ページ - ... extraordinary production of gold which we are now witnessing, so as to prevent a fall in its value. There is but one way of disposing of these masses of gold, it is by coining them and forcing them into the current of circulation into countries which are already sufficiently provided with a gold currency. This current will absorb them, for it is, so to speak, insatiable ; it receives and carries off all that is thrown into it ; but the process of absorption and assimilation is on one condition,...
219 ページ - Ulysses' toilworn band: For Jupiter, when he with brass the Golden Age alloyed, That blissful region set apart by the good to be enjoyed ; With brass and then with iron he the ages seared, but ye, Good men and true, to that bright home arise and follow me!