| Adam Smith - Economics - 1869 - 576 pages
...country. The gold and silver money Which circulates in any country may very properly he compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggonway through tlio air, enable the country to convert, as it wore, a great part of its highways into good pastures... | |
| Amasa Walker - Economics - 1869 - 562 pages
...: — "The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway ; which, while it circulates, and carries...I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1870 - 512 pages
...that " the gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...country, produces itself not a single pile, of either." He carries out the comparison still further. " The judicious operations of Banking," he remarks, "... | |
| Francis Bowen - Economics - 1870 - 586 pages
...circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highwav, which, while it circulates aucl carries to market all the grass and corn of the country, produces itself not a single pile of either." He carries out the comparison still further. " The judicious operations of Banking," he remarks, "... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1873 - 606 pages
...labour. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...country, produces itself not a single pile of either.' This form of the means of communication, this great highway of the country may, as Mr. Newmarch has... | |
| Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 668 pages
...country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...I may be allowed so violent a metaphor) a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways... | |
| Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 674 pages
...country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...I may be allowed so violent a metaphor) a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways... | |
| Henry Varnum Poor - Banks and banking - 1877 - 706 pages
...country. The gold and silver money which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...judicious operations of banking, by providing (if I may bo allowed so violent a metaphor) a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert,... | |
| Willem Vissering - Money - 1877 - 288 pages
...I4I. "The gold mid silver money which circulates in any country may very properly "be compared to a highway, which, while "it circulates and carries to market all the "grass and corn of the country, produees "itself not a single pile of either. The ju"dicious operations of banking , by providing ,... | |
| Francis Amasa Walker - Economics - 1879 - 366 pages
...silver money," wrote Adam Smith, " which circulates in any country may very properly be compared to a highway, which, while it circulates and carries to...I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of wagon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways... | |
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