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Now the kingdom gets or loses by this ( for no question the merchant , by low interest , gets all the while ) only proportionably ( allowing the consumption of foreign commodities to be still the same ) as the paying of use to ...
Now the kingdom gets or loses by this ( for no question the merchant , by low interest , gets all the while ) only proportionably ( allowing the consumption of foreign commodities to be still the same ) as the paying of use to ...
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So that , whatever this author , or any one else may say , money is brought into England by nothing but spending here less of foreign commodities than what we carry to market can pay for ; nor can debts , we owe to foreigners , be paid ...
So that , whatever this author , or any one else may say , money is brought into England by nothing but spending here less of foreign commodities than what we carry to market can pay for ; nor can debts , we owe to foreigners , be paid ...
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All that a bill of exchange can do is to direct to whom money due , or taken up upon credit , in a foreign country , shall be paid ; and if we trace it , we shall find , that what is owing already , became so for commodities , or money ...
All that a bill of exchange can do is to direct to whom money due , or taken up upon credit , in a foreign country , shall be paid ; and if we trace it , we shall find , that what is owing already , became so for commodities , or money ...
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It will make all foreign commodities very dear , both which will make us poor ; for the merchant , making silver and gold his measure , and considering what the foreign commodity costs him ( i . e . how many ounces of silver ) in the ...
It will make all foreign commodities very dear , both which will make us poor ; for the merchant , making silver and gold his measure , and considering what the foreign commodity costs him ( i . e . how many ounces of silver ) in the ...
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In one , the merchant has more money ( or debts , which is all one ) in a foreign country , than his trade there will employ , and so is willing to allow upon exchange to him abroad , that shall pay him ready money at home , 1 , 2 , 3 ...
In one , the merchant has more money ( or debts , which is all one ) in a foreign country , than his trade there will employ , and so is willing to allow upon exchange to him abroad , that shall pay him ready money at home , 1 , 2 , 3 ...
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