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... as the most industrious and most beneficial of any of its subjects : but I could not forbear to give this here , as an instance how dangerous a temptation it is to bring men customarily to swear , where they may have any concernment ...
... as the most industrious and most beneficial of any of its subjects : but I could not forbear to give this here , as an instance how dangerous a temptation it is to bring men customarily to swear , where they may have any concernment ...
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... to those they parted with , for any quantity of these metals ; by which means it comes to pass , that the intrinsic value , regarded in these metals , made the common barter , is nothing but the quantity which men give or receive of ...
... to those they parted with , for any quantity of these metals ; by which means it comes to pass , that the intrinsic value , regarded in these metals , made the common barter , is nothing but the quantity which men give or receive of ...
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There is nothing more confirmed , by daily experience , than that men give any portion of money , for whatsoever is absolutely necessary , rather than go without it . And in such things , the scarcity of them alone makes their prices .
There is nothing more confirmed , by daily experience , than that men give any portion of money , for whatsoever is absolutely necessary , rather than go without it . And in such things , the scarcity of them alone makes their prices .
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... in that grain would give it an excellency very considerable : and yet this would not increase the price of it one farthing in twenty bushels , because its quantity , or vent , would not hereby , to any sensible degree , be altered .
... in that grain would give it an excellency very considerable : and yet this would not increase the price of it one farthing in twenty bushels , because its quantity , or vent , would not hereby , to any sensible degree , be altered .
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That supposing any island separate from the commerce of the rest of mankind ; if gold and silver , or whatever else , ( so it be lasting ) be their money , if they have but a certain quantity of it , and can give no more , that will be ...
That supposing any island separate from the commerce of the rest of mankind ; if gold and silver , or whatever else , ( so it be lasting ) be their money , if they have but a certain quantity of it , and can give no more , that will be ...
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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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