The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot, Volumen5Longmans, Green, 1915 |
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... America had the same currencies as England , it would still happen as now , that bills on Paris or New York would be at a discount or a premium . The amount of money wishing to go eastward across the Atlantic , and the amount wishing to ...
... America had the same currencies as England , it would still happen as now , that bills on Paris or New York would be at a discount or a premium . The amount of money wishing to go eastward across the Atlantic , and the amount wishing to ...
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... American currency is in a condition yet more curious . " On the recognition , " says Mr. Ruggles , the American Com- missioner at the Paris Congress , " by England , in 1783 , of the political independence of the United States , their ...
... American currency is in a condition yet more curious . " On the recognition , " says Mr. Ruggles , the American Com- missioner at the Paris Congress , " by England , in 1783 , of the political independence of the United States , their ...
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... America is a difficulty to themselves now . Both created something so good that nations who have it do not like to ... American currencies want ; it has a high gold unit . No doubt also it has totally escaped the " besetting sin " of ...
... America is a difficulty to themselves now . Both created something so good that nations who have it do not like to ... American currencies want ; it has a high gold unit . No doubt also it has totally escaped the " besetting sin " of ...
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... American coinages contem- plated would present : — " In the French coinage : " I franc divided into 100 centimes ; " In the American : 5 francs ( dollar ) divided into 100 cents ; " In the British : VOL . V. 3 " 10 francs ( gold florin ...
... American coinages contem- plated would present : — " In the French coinage : " I franc divided into 100 centimes ; " In the American : 5 francs ( dollar ) divided into 100 cents ; " In the British : VOL . V. 3 " 10 francs ( gold florin ...
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... American half - eagle , the English sovereign are all very near to it . A decimal system of money and accounts based ... America , there would be a slight change to be made , and in this matter the difficulty of mak- ing a change is not ...
... American half - eagle , the English sovereign are all very near to it . A decimal system of money and accounts based ... America , there would be a slight change to be made , and in this matter the difficulty of mak- ing a change is not ...
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Página 102 - A hot flash seems to burn across the brain. Men in these intense states of mind have altered all history, changed for better or worse the creed of myriads, and desolated or redeemed provinces and ages. Nor is this intensity a sign of truth, for it is precisely strongest in
Página 182 - despot) which branded him as an object of mingled fear and dislike. " If we carry our eyes back from historical to legendary Greece, we find a picture the reverse of what has been here sketched. We discern a government in which there is little or no scheme or system, still less any idea of
Página 249 - a year, its power will be less year by year, and at last be gone, as so much kingly power is gone—no one knows how. Its danger is not in assassination, but atrophy ; not abolition, but decline. No. V. THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Página 355 - the time. It would not have suited the ante-Tudor kings to have had a fictitious assembly; they would have lost their sole feeler, their only instrument for discovering national opinion. Nor could they have manufactured such an assembly if they wished. The instrument in that behalf is the centralised executive, and there was then no
Página 158 - if I may say so, an ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you do not see is wholly altered.
Página 179 - would be elected by the Electoral College as the second wisest man in the country. The vice-presidentship being a sinecure, a second-rate man agreeable to the wire-pullers is always smuggled in. The chance of succession to the presidentship is too distant to be thought of.
Página 138 - condemned as injudicious or corrupt . ' Blessed are the peace-makers' is, I suppose, to be understood in the other world, for in this they are frequently cursed." And this is very often the view taken now in England of treaties. There being nothing practical in the Opposition—nothing likely to hamper them
Página 362 - of corporations. And it was natural, that in France, where there is scarcely any power of self-organisation in the people, where the prt'fet must be asked upon every subject, and take the initiative in every movement, a solitary thinker should be repelled from the exaggerations of which he knew the evil, to the contrary exaggeration of which he did not.
Página 353 - he might do, and what he might not do. If he much mistook this, there was a rebellion. There are, as is well known, three great periods in the English Constitution. The first of these is the ante-Tudor period. The English Parliament then seemed to be gaining
Página 230 - some most remarkable occasions. But it has been by a good deal of management. " Upon the important occasion and question now before the House, I propose to endeavour to induce them to avoid to involve the country in the additional difficulties of a difference of opinion, possibly a dispute