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... and as necessary to trade as food is to life , every body must have it , at what rate they can get it ; and unavoidably pay dear , when it is scarce ; and debts , no less than trade , have made borrowing in fashion .
... and as necessary to trade as food is to life , every body must have it , at what rate they can get it ; and unavoidably pay dear , when it is scarce ; and debts , no less than trade , have made borrowing in fashion .
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For in trade every body calls for money , according as he wants it , and this disproportion is always felt . For , if Englishmen owed in all but one million , and there were a million of money in England , the money would be well enough ...
For in trade every body calls for money , according as he wants it , and this disproportion is always felt . For , if Englishmen owed in all but one million , and there were a million of money in England , the money would be well enough ...
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But , supposing the law reached the intention of the promoters of it ; and that this act be so contrived , that it fixed the natural price of money , and hindered its being , by any body , lent at a higher use than four per cent .
But , supposing the law reached the intention of the promoters of it ; and that this act be so contrived , that it fixed the natural price of money , and hindered its being , by any body , lent at a higher use than four per cent .
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which , such as they are , good or bad , the workman must take at his master's rate , or sit still and starve : whilst by this means this new sort of engrossers , or forestallers , having the feeding and supplying this numerous body of ...
which , such as they are , good or bad , the workman must take at his master's rate , or sit still and starve : whilst by this means this new sort of engrossers , or forestallers , having the feeding and supplying this numerous body of ...
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Here , by the by , we may observe , that it were better for trade , and consequently for every body , for more money would be stirring , and less would do the business ) if rents were paid by shorter intervals than six months ...
Here , by the by , we may observe , that it were better for trade , and consequently for every body , for more money would be stirring , and less would do the business ) if rents were paid by shorter intervals than six months ...
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| Title | The Works of John Locke, Volume 5 The Works of John Locke, John Locke |
| Author | John Locke |
| Publisher | Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2006 |
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