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... effect that the Double Standard is not only required for the general welfare of the country , but that it also ... effects have resulted from the closing of the mint against silver , and cannot be corrected or prevented from ...
... effect that the Double Standard is not only required for the general welfare of the country , but that it also ... effects have resulted from the closing of the mint against silver , and cannot be corrected or prevented from ...
Page xv
... what was being effected by the Act , and that her Majesty signed away one of her royal pre- rogatives entrusted to the Crown for the purpose of preventing the creation of unjust effects , which it was PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION XV.
... what was being effected by the Act , and that her Majesty signed away one of her royal pre- rogatives entrusted to the Crown for the purpose of preventing the creation of unjust effects , which it was PREFACE TO THE SEVENTH EDITION XV.
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William Leighton Jordan. preventing the creation of unjust effects , which it was certainly foreseen might result ... effect in the United States in 1873 , around which a stormy dis- cussion has recently been waged , and in which we ...
William Leighton Jordan. preventing the creation of unjust effects , which it was certainly foreseen might result ... effect in the United States in 1873 , around which a stormy dis- cussion has recently been waged , and in which we ...
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... effect that it was desir- able ' to revert to the ancient practice of this country ' by making silver as well as gold a legal tender for large sums . ' The subject had engaged the Duke's attention on the morn- ing of the day on which he ...
... effect that it was desir- able ' to revert to the ancient practice of this country ' by making silver as well as gold a legal tender for large sums . ' The subject had engaged the Duke's attention on the morn- ing of the day on which he ...
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... effect on prices as money . ' Bank - notes , bills of exchange , and banking credits , pay- ' able in gold , have exactly the same effects as an equal amount ' of gold . ' 1 Mr. Macleod afterwards alludes to some of Adam Smith's ...
... effect on prices as money . ' Bank - notes , bills of exchange , and banking credits , pay- ' able in gold , have exactly the same effects as an equal amount ' of gold . ' 1 Mr. Macleod afterwards alludes to some of Adam Smith's ...
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