A Statistical Account of the British Empire: Exhibiting Its Extent, Physical Capacities, Population, Industry, and Civil and Religious Institutions, Volumen2C. Knight, 1839 |
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... attending such a cur- rency , allowing only 4 per cent , for wear and tear and loss of coins , could not be reckoned at less than 3,250,000l . a year . It is obvious , too , that were there nothing but coins in circulation , the ...
... attending such a cur- rency , allowing only 4 per cent , for wear and tear and loss of coins , could not be reckoned at less than 3,250,000l . a year . It is obvious , too , that were there nothing but coins in circulation , the ...
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... attending the business of banking in Scotland , bank- ruptcies have been very rare among the Scotch banks . They have long enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the public ; and , from their receiving small sums ( 107. ) as deposits , and ...
... attending the business of banking in Scotland , bank- ruptcies have been very rare among the Scotch banks . They have long enjoyed the unlimited confidence of the public ; and , from their receiving small sums ( 107. ) as deposits , and ...
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... 11,031,063 July 1 . 7,187,673 3,684,764 10,872,137 September 30 . 6,701,996 3,440,053 10,142,049 December 30 . 7,013,470 3,826,665 10,870,135 - 2. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . -The inconvenience attending the D 3 MONEY . 37.
... 11,031,063 July 1 . 7,187,673 3,684,764 10,872,137 September 30 . 6,701,996 3,440,053 10,142,049 December 30 . 7,013,470 3,826,665 10,870,135 - 2. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES . -The inconvenience attending the D 3 MONEY . 37.
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... attending the use of weights and measures of the same denomination , but of different magnitudes , was early remarked ; and there is hardly a country in which efforts have not been made to reduce them to the same uniform system ...
... attending the use of weights and measures of the same denomination , but of different magnitudes , was early remarked ; and there is hardly a country in which efforts have not been made to reduce them to the same uniform system ...
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... attended this project excited the public attention , in all parts of the empire , to the advantages that might be derived from such undertakings , and gave a wonderful stimulus to canal navi- gation . Brindley had early conceived the ...
... attended this project excited the public attention , in all parts of the empire , to the advantages that might be derived from such undertakings , and gave a wonderful stimulus to canal navi- gation . Brindley had early conceived the ...
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Página 469 - Forgery at common law has been defined as 'the fraudulent making or alteration of a writing to the prejudice of another man's right
Página 83 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Página 3 - The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Página 690 - The turtle to her make hath told her tale. Summer is come, for every spray now springs : The hart hath hung his old head on the pale ; The buck in brake his winter coat he flings ; The fishes flete with new repaired scale.
Página 123 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same?
Página 484 - Britain, or in an Act passed in the fourth year of His Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for consolidating and amending the Laws relating to the building, repairing and regulating of certain Gaols and Houses of Correction in England and Wales.
Página 619 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other necessary ware and stuff to set the poor on work, and also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work...
Página 434 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página 4 - Would it be a reasonable law to prohibit the importation of all foreign wines merely to encourage the making of claret and burgundy in Scotland? But if there would be a manifest absurdity in turning towards any employment thirty times more of the capital and industry of the country than would be necessary to purchase from foreign countries an equal quantity of the commodities wanted, there must be an absurdity, though not altogether so glaring, yet exactly of the same kind, in turning towards any...
Página 690 - The fishes flete with new repaired scale; The adder all her slough away she slings; The swift swallow pursueth the flies smale; The busy bee her honey now she mings; Winter is worn that was the flowers