 | Sir Edward Robert Pearce Edgcumbe - Bimetallism - 1896 - 176 pages
...independently of all ordinary causes. David Hume, in his Essay on Money, says, " If prices rise, everything takes a new face, labour and industry gain life, the...follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention. If prices fall, the poverty, beggary,and sloth that must ensue are easily foreseen." Professor Stanley... | |
 | William Leighton Jordan - Bimetallism - 1896 - 256 pages
...words in which he says that under a currency increasing in volume more rapidly than commodities : ' Labour and industry gain life, the merchant becomes...follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention.' 1 Perfect steadiness in the value of the standard is not attainable ; the best that can be done is... | |
 | Samuel Smith - Great Britain - 1902 - 710 pages
...that in every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly everything takes a new face. Labour and industry gain life, the...follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention." CHAPTER XXXVII Session of 1895 — Defeat ot the Government — General Election — Free Trade and... | |
 | Samuel Smith - Great Britain - 1902 - 704 pages
...new face. Labour and industry gain life, the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manuf.icturer more diligent and skilful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention." CHAPTER XXXVII Session of 1895 — Defeat of the Government — General Election — Free Trade and... | |
 | Protectionism - 1902 - 810 pages
...industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skillful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention." When these evidences of betterment are attributed to increase of money, they are by implication referred... | |
 | James Laurence Laughlin - Money - 1903 - 630 pages
...a new face ; the merchant becomes more enterprising ; the manufacturer more diligent and skillful, and even the farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention." 4 This outcome arose from a subsidence in the value of the metallic standard due to the new supplies... | |
 | United States - 1898 - 726 pages
...into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face; labor and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more...follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention." The turning point was reached in 1873. In that year the mints of the United States and other countries... | |
 | George David Hubbard - Gold mines and mining - 1911 - 112 pages
...which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes on a new face. Labor and industry gain life, the merchant becomes more...farmer follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention."27 Increased gold and silver production seems to be not only a local stimulant but a universal... | |
 | Sir David Miller Barbour - Gold - 1913 - 126 pages
...that, in every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, everything takes a new face; labour and industry gain life ;...follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention. . . . To account, then, for this phenomenon, we must consider that, though the high price of commodities... | |
 | Science - 1908 - 768 pages
...every kingdom into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly everything takes on a new face; labour and industry gain life, the merchant...follows his plough with greater alacrity and attention." It is true goods have to be exported to pay for the imported gold, or part of the national supply of... | |
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Accordingly we find, that, in every kingdom, into which money begins to flow in greater abundance than formerly, every thing takes a new face: labour and industry gain life; the merchant becomes more enterprising, the manufacturer more diligent and skilful,... 
