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... persons whose habits of thought lie in the groove in which we require amelioration , should be brought to interest themselves more , and assist in perfecting the means at our disposal . The present volume will be found to contain ...
... persons whose habits of thought lie in the groove in which we require amelioration , should be brought to interest themselves more , and assist in perfecting the means at our disposal . The present volume will be found to contain ...
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... Persons about to travel , instead of encumbering themselves with coin , applied to a cambitor and received in ex- change for their specie a bill of exchange drawn upon another cambitor , as near as possible to the place where they were ...
... Persons about to travel , instead of encumbering themselves with coin , applied to a cambitor and received in ex- change for their specie a bill of exchange drawn upon another cambitor , as near as possible to the place where they were ...
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... person ; others assert that they were pay- able to bearer , and circulated from one to the other like our bank - notes . It is tolerably certain , however , that the Jews would pursue a system which conduced more to their own advantage ...
... person ; others assert that they were pay- able to bearer , and circulated from one to the other like our bank - notes . It is tolerably certain , however , that the Jews would pursue a system which conduced more to their own advantage ...
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... persons to super- intend the operations of the mint , who were en- dowed with moral rectitude , and whose integrity ... person of Queen Elizabeth , together with her advisers , to stamp the debased coins with their real value . These ...
... persons to super- intend the operations of the mint , who were en- dowed with moral rectitude , and whose integrity ... person of Queen Elizabeth , together with her advisers , to stamp the debased coins with their real value . These ...
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... persons whose chief trade was to lend out their own money , and that the back - bone of their establishments did not consist of the money of other people , which was intrusted to them in the form of deposits . In this opinion most ...
... persons whose chief trade was to lend out their own money , and that the back - bone of their establishments did not consist of the money of other people , which was intrusted to them in the form of deposits . In this opinion most ...
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