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Page 13
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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The very same shilling may , at one time , pay twenty men in twenty days : at another , rest in the same hands one hundred days together . This makes it impossible exactly to estimate the quantity of money needful in trade ; but , to ...
The very same shilling may , at one time , pay twenty men in twenty days : at another , rest in the same hands one hundred days together . This makes it impossible exactly to estimate the quantity of money needful in trade ; but , to ...
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... they make a very inconsiderable part in the account ; for those who immediately depend on the landholder , as his children and servants , come in under that title , being maintained by the rent of his lands ; and so of the rest .
... they make a very inconsiderable part in the account ; for those who immediately depend on the landholder , as his children and servants , come in under that title , being maintained by the rent of his lands ; and so of the rest .
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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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That in a country , that hath open commerce with the rest of the world , and uses money , made of the same materials with their neighbours , any quantity of that money will not serve to drive any quantity of trade ; but there must be a ...
That in a country , that hath open commerce with the rest of the world , and uses money , made of the same materials with their neighbours , any quantity of that money will not serve to drive any quantity of trade ; but there must be a ...
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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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