...leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value <5f money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our proper- , ty ; as letters were invented to express our ideas ; and both these institutions, by giving...

...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of .money has been settled by general consent...passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply thfrobjeets they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver is in a great measure factitious;...

...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than • Tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants, and our property; as letter* were invented to express oar ideas : and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy...

...leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The valne of money has been settled by general consent to express...contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver is in a great measure factitious ; but it would be impossible...

...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our proferty, as letters were invented to express our ideas : and both these institutions, y giving a more...

...reflection such leading facts convey more instruction than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent...contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver is in a great measure factitious ; but it would be impossible...

...reflection, such leading facts convey more instruction, than a tedious detail of subordinate circumstances. The value of money has been settled by general consent...energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have con-_ tributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent. The use of gold and silver...

...tardy and dubious demand for goods produced in advance of orders. Justly, then, does Gibbon remark, ' ' The value of money has been settled by general consent...multiply the objects they were designed to express. ' ' Of the articles which have at one period or another, in one country or another, performed the function...

...STANFOJ; CHARING CROSS, 185 600075791 Z DECLINE OF PROSPERITY: ITS INSIDIOUS CAUSE AND OBVIOUS REMEDY. " The value of money has been settled, by general consent. to express our wants and onr property, as letters were invented to express our ideas ; and both these institutions, by giving...

...depreciation of stock. ' The value of money,' says Gibbon (Decline and Fall, c. 9 — vol. i. p. 356), ' has been settled by general consent to express our...contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.' See also the quotation from Xen. de Vectigalibus given in the note on 1257 b 33. 3. (лес...