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... and will not suffer you to overlook any thing you conceive may be of any the least use , though offered you from the meanest capacities : you could not else have put me upon looking out my old papers , concerning the reducing of ...
... and will not suffer you to overlook any thing you conceive may be of any the least use , though offered you from the meanest capacities : you could not else have put me upon looking out my old papers , concerning the reducing of ...
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Private men's interests ought not thus to be neglected , nor sacrificed to any thing , but the manifest advantage of the public . But , in this case , , it will be quite the contrary . This loss to the moneyed men will be a prejudice to ...
Private men's interests ought not thus to be neglected , nor sacrificed to any thing , but the manifest advantage of the public . But , in this case , , it will be quite the contrary . This loss to the moneyed men will be a prejudice to ...
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This is in the ordinary course of things : but where great armies and alliances are to be maintained abroad , by supplies sent out of any country , there often ... The next thing to be considered is , how money is necessary to trade .
This is in the ordinary course of things : but where great armies and alliances are to be maintained abroad , by supplies sent out of any country , there often ... The next thing to be considered is , how money is necessary to trade .
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For money being the counter - balance to all other things purchaseable by it , and lying , as it were , in the opposite ... so much you add to the price of other things which are exchanged for it ; the raising of the price of any thing ...
For money being the counter - balance to all other things purchaseable by it , and lying , as it were , in the opposite ... so much you add to the price of other things which are exchanged for it ; the raising of the price of any thing ...
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And in such things , the scarcity of them alone makes their prices . As for example : let us suppose half an ounce of silver , or half a crown now in England , is worth a bushel of wheat : but should there be next year a great scarcity ...
And in such things , the scarcity of them alone makes their prices . As for example : let us suppose half an ounce of silver , or half a crown now in England , is worth a bushel of wheat : but should there be next year a great scarcity ...
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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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