Abhandlungen der Philologisch-Historischen Classe der Königlich Sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Volumes 2-3

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Page 18 - A compendious or briefe examination of certayne ordinary complaints of divers of our countrymen in these our days...
Page 72 - I take to do this, is not yet very usual ; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the Course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetick I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure ; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature...
Page 87 - I chiefly aim to prove; which is, that Gold and Silver, and, out of them, Money, are nothing but the Weights and Measures, by which Traffick is more conveniently carried on than could be done without them: and also a proper Fund for a surplusage of Stock to be deposited in.
Page 68 - There is not a better Latin poet living, when he gives himself that diversion ; nor is his excellence less in Council and prudent matters of state ; but he is so exceeding nice in sifting and examining all possible contingencies, that he adventures at nothing which is not demonstration. There were not in the whole world his equal for a superintendent of manufacture and improvement of trade, or to govern a plantation. If I were a Prince, I should make him my second Counsellor, at least.
Page 385 - ... is rebus vendundis dicant, quam legem eos, qui Romae aerario praeerunt, e lege praediatoria praedibus praedisque vendundis dicere oporteret, aut, si lege praediatoria emptorem non inveniet, quam legem in vacuom vendendis dicere oporteret; et dum ita legem dicant, uti pecuniam in foro1 municipi Flavi Malacitani referatur luatur solvatur.
Page 28 - A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia : of the commodities there found and to be raysed, as well marchantable, as others for victuall, building and other necessarie vses for those that are and shalbe the planters there ; and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants...
Page 44 - A Discourse of Trade, from England unto the East Indies: Answering to diverse Objections which are usually made against the same.
Page 379 - De nominatione candidatorum.] [LI]. [Si ad quem diem professio] fieri oportebit, nullius nomine aut | pauciorum, quam tot quod creari opor|tebit, professio facta eri[t]; sive ex his, | quorum nomine professio facta erit, | pauciores erunt, quorum h(ac) l(ege) comitiis ra|tionem habere oporteat, quam tot [quot...
Page 82 - Shewing how a Fund of a Bank may be made without much charge or any hazard, that may give out Bills of Credit to a vast extent, that all Europe will accept of, rather than Money.
Page 46 - Es ist gar nicht einmal wünschenswert!], sehr viel Geld im Lande zu haben; das vertheuert nur die Waaren, und erschwert folglich deren Ausfuhr. Die Italiener pflegen das baare Geld durch Wechsel, Banken usw zu ersetzen, und nutzen es selbst alsdann im Auslande. (CA. 4.) Aus diesem Grunde tadelt Mun die alten englischen Gesetze , wonach , wer Korn , Fische usw ausführte, Geld wieder heimbringen, und wer fremde Waaren einführte, mit englischen Waaren bezahlen sollte1). Nur der wirkliche Ueberschuss...

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