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الصفحة 84
... silver money ( if we neglect the imperfectly milled money which was executed between 1561 and 1663 ) were in circulation , hammered money with unmarked rims , and what was called milled money , from being made in a coining - mill , with ...
... silver money ( if we neglect the imperfectly milled money which was executed between 1561 and 1663 ) were in circulation , hammered money with unmarked rims , and what was called milled money , from being made in a coining - mill , with ...
الصفحة 85
Thomas Fowler. of the current silver money , which ought to have weighed four hundred ounces , was found to weigh only a hundred and sixteen . Every month the state of things was be- coming worse and worse . The cost of commodities was ...
Thomas Fowler. of the current silver money , which ought to have weighed four hundred ounces , was found to weigh only a hundred and sixteen . Every month the state of things was be- coming worse and worse . The cost of commodities was ...
الصفحة 86
... silver . To the consideration of this scheme , which at one time found much favour , we shall soon see that he had occasion to recur . Universal as were the complaints about the existing state of things , no active measures , if we ...
... silver . To the consideration of this scheme , which at one time found much favour , we shall soon see that he had occasion to recur . Universal as were the complaints about the existing state of things , no active measures , if we ...
الصفحة 88
... silver money . In executing the for- mer part of his task , he left no doubt as to the necessity of speedily applying some remedy . The silver coins . brought into the exchequer during three months of 1695 ought to have weighed 221,418 ...
... silver money . In executing the for- mer part of his task , he left no doubt as to the necessity of speedily applying some remedy . The silver coins . brought into the exchequer during three months of 1695 ought to have weighed 221,418 ...
الصفحة 89
... Silver money in England , and after for keeping it here . Meanwhile , Montague had , under the sanction of a com- mittee of the whole House , introduced his resolutions into the House of Commons , and there can be little doubt that , in ...
... Silver money in England , and after for keeping it here . Meanwhile , Montague had , under the sanction of a com- mittee of the whole House , introduced his resolutions into the House of Commons , and there can be little doubt that , in ...
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الصفحة 118 - Believe it, my good friend, to love truth, for truth's sake, is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues ; and, if I mistake not, you have as much of it as ever I met with in any body.
الصفحة 180 - ... not without reason that he seeks out and is willing to join in society with others, who are already united, or have a mind to unite, for the mutual preservation of their lives, liberties, and estates, which I call by the general name, property.
الصفحة 125 - Were it fit to trouble thee with the history o'f this Essay, I should tell thee, that five or six friends, meeting at my chamber, and discoursing on a subject very remote from this, found themselves quickly at a stand by the difficulties that rose on every side.
الصفحة 180 - ... as if when men quitting the state of nature entered into society, they agreed that all of them but one should be under the restraint of laws, but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of nature, increased with power, and made licentious by impunity. This is to think, that men are so foolish, that they take care to avoid what mischiefs may be done them by pole' cats, or foxes; but are content, nay think it safety, to be devoured by lions.
الصفحة 126 - This therefore being my purpose, to inquire into the original, certainty, and extent of human knowledge, together with the grounds and degrees of belief, opinion, and assent...
الصفحة 130 - Our observation employed either, about external sensible objects, or about the internal operations of our minds perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the MATERIALS of thinking. These two are the fountains of knowledge, from whence all the ideas we have, or can naturally have, do spring.
الصفحة 130 - Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, From experience: in that all our knowledge is founded, and from that it ultimately derives itself.
الصفحة 73 - But the Gospel contains so perfect a body of ethics, that reason may be excused from that inquiry, since she may find man's duty clearer and easier in revelation than in herself.
الصفحة 64 - one of those divine men, who, like a chapel in a palace, remain unprofaned, while all the rest is tyranny, corruption, and folly. All the traditional accounts of him, the historians of the last age, and its best authors, represent him as the most incorrupt lawyer, and the honestest statesman, as a...
الصفحة 133 - When the understanding is once stored with these simple ideas, it has the power to repeat, compare, and unite them, even to an almost infinite variety, and so can make at pleasure new complex ideas. But it is not in the power of the most exalted wit or enlarged understanding, by any quickness or variety of thought, to invent or frame one new simple idea in the mind, not taken in by the ways before mentioned ; nor can any force of the understanding destroy those that are there...