 | David Hume - 1760 - 396 ページ
...Of MONEY. MO NEY is not, properly fpeaking, one of the fubjefts of commerce; but only the inflrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. 'Tis none of the wheels of trade : 'Tis the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more fmooth... | |
 | 1775 - 408 ページ
...during his whole life*. MONEY is not properly one of the fubjects of commerce, but only the inftrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : it is the oil which-renders the motion of the wheels more fmooth and... | |
 | 1762 - 762 ページ
...on\j to obferve their literary excellencies or of the fubjects of" commerce ; but on ly the inflrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more fmooth and... | |
 | David Hume - 1793 - 530 ページ
...Money. • MONEY is not, properly fpeaking, one of the fub. jects of commerce ; but only the iritrumtnt which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It- is none of the wheels of trade: lt-is the oil which renders the motion, «f the wheels more fmooth and... | |
 | David Hume - 1804 - 592 ページ
...nothing to those who an> employed in the public service. f Fable of the Be.es. ESSAY III. OF MONEY. is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and... | |
 | David Hume - 1809 - 868 ページ
...service. * Fable of the Bees. ESSAY IIl. OF MONEY. MONEY is not, properly speaking, one of the subject* of commerce ; but only the instrument which men have...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of the wheels of trade : It is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and... | |
 | ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO. - 1814 - 548 ページ
...rise and fall in the value of money. I am, Sir, Your, &c. On Money and Currency. JM 4 MONEY, ' says Mr Hume, ' is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects...facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another.' And he adds, ' It is none of the wheels of trade; it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels... | |
 | 1824 - 770 ページ
...numeration and arithmetic. He farther observes, money is not, properly speaking, one of the objects of commerce, but only the instrument which men have...not one of the wheels of trade ; it is the oil which renders the motion of the wheels more smooth and easy ! An Italian Political Economist, of considerable... | |
 | 1825 - 798 ページ
...shall resort to quotations also, and shall take them from home-bred philosophers : '' Money (says David Hume) is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects...facilitate the exchange of •one commodity for another*." So says one great man, as to money in general : another one (Adam Smith) gives us, in his Wealth of... | |
 | David Hume - 1817 - 564 ページ
...labourers, and can afford nothing to those who are employed in the public service. ESSAY III, ,OF MONEY. is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce ; but only the instrument wb*ir*i men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. It is none of... | |
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MONEY is not, properly speaking, one of the subjects of commerce ; but only the instrument which men have agreed upon to facilitate the exchange of one commodity for another. 
