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Page 12
Gold and silver , though they serve for few , yet they command all the conveniencies of life , and therefore in a plenty of them consist riches . Every one knows that mines alone furnish these : but withal it is observable , that most ...
Gold and silver , though they serve for few , yet they command all the conveniencies of life , and therefore in a plenty of them consist riches . Every one knows that mines alone furnish these : but withal it is observable , that most ...
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Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver , but in having more in proportion than the rest of the world , or than our neighbours , whereby we are enabled to procure to ourselves a greater plenty of the conveniencies of life ...
Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver , but in having more in proportion than the rest of the world , or than our neighbours , whereby we are enabled to procure to ourselves a greater plenty of the conveniencies of life ...
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For gold grows not , that I know , in our country , and silver so little , that one hundred thousandth part of the silver we have now in England was not drawn out of any mines in this island . If he means that the monied man in Holland ...
For gold grows not , that I know , in our country , and silver so little , that one hundred thousandth part of the silver we have now in England was not drawn out of any mines in this island . If he means that the monied man in Holland ...
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For mankind , having consented to put an imaginary value upon gold and silver , by reason of their durableness , scarcity , and not being very liable to be counterfeited , have made them , by general consent , the common pledges ...
For mankind , having consented to put an imaginary value upon gold and silver , by reason of their durableness , scarcity , and not being very liable to be counterfeited , have made them , by general consent , the common pledges ...
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For example : should the value of gold be brought down to that of silver , one hundred guineas would purchase little more corn , wool , or land , than one hundred shillings ; and so , the value of money being brought lower , say they ...
For example : should the value of gold be brought down to that of silver , one hundred guineas would purchase little more corn , wool , or land , than one hundred shillings ; and so , the value of money being brought lower , say they ...
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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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