The Standard of ValueLongmans, Green and Company, 1896 - 187 pages |
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Page xi
... fact of individual debtors , and debtor nations , being injured by the rising value of gold can scarcely require further discussion . In reply to arguments urged before the Royal Commission on Gold and Silver , I pointed out , in ...
... fact of individual debtors , and debtor nations , being injured by the rising value of gold can scarcely require further discussion . In reply to arguments urged before the Royal Commission on Gold and Silver , I pointed out , in ...
Page xii
... fact , it could do at present . ' ' It appears , according to the opinion of the ' Bankers ' Magazine , ' that Act did , in fact , contain such a clause as I have always contended ought to have been inserted in it ; and , if so , it is ...
... fact , it could do at present . ' ' It appears , according to the opinion of the ' Bankers ' Magazine , ' that Act did , in fact , contain such a clause as I have always contended ought to have been inserted in it ; and , if so , it is ...
Page xiv
... fact , the manner in which the Act of 1816 orders the charge to be made , in case of the mint being re - opened to the public for the unlimited coinage of silver . I have commented on this as one of the subordinate errors of Lord ...
... fact , the manner in which the Act of 1816 orders the charge to be made , in case of the mint being re - opened to the public for the unlimited coinage of silver . I have commented on this as one of the subordinate errors of Lord ...
Page xv
... fact seems to be that Mr. Lowe , afterwards Lord Sherbrooke , in drafting that Act , was probably acting deliberately on the suggestion of the Paris Conference of 1867 , and it may be that the great majority of the Lords and Commons did ...
... fact seems to be that Mr. Lowe , afterwards Lord Sherbrooke , in drafting that Act , was probably acting deliberately on the suggestion of the Paris Conference of 1867 , and it may be that the great majority of the Lords and Commons did ...
Page xvi
... fact remains that even if King , Lords , and Commons all thoroughly under- stood the import of the Currency Acts of 1816 and 1870 , they were carried at the instigation of the first Lord Liverpool , who considered that the ...
... fact remains that even if King , Lords , and Commons all thoroughly under- stood the import of the Currency Acts of 1816 and 1870 , they were carried at the instigation of the first Lord Liverpool , who considered that the ...
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