Observations on Some of the Chief Difficulties and Disadvantages of English Society, with Suggestions for Their RemedyHarvey and Darton, 1829 - 216 pagina's |
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... cent . interest per annum , except 3,513,000l . , yet the public creditor holds the country as a debtor for thirty - four millions for that transaction : is this fair ? and the loan of the preceding year 1,620,000l . is already repaid ...
... cent . interest per annum , except 3,513,000l . , yet the public creditor holds the country as a debtor for thirty - four millions for that transaction : is this fair ? and the loan of the preceding year 1,620,000l . is already repaid ...
Pagina 90
... cent . of fifty thousand cases of crime , than they could by following up twenty per cent . of five thousand cases ; in short , good regulations and wise laws are very good ; but if we place men in a station wherein it is their interest ...
... cent . of fifty thousand cases of crime , than they could by following up twenty per cent . of five thousand cases ; in short , good regulations and wise laws are very good ; but if we place men in a station wherein it is their interest ...
Pagina 92
... coast , and in the districts where horses are slaughtered , and both would be pleased when one paid the other a com- mission of twenty - five per cent . on his liability , 66 as consideration for the recovery of the horse , 92.
... coast , and in the districts where horses are slaughtered , and both would be pleased when one paid the other a com- mission of twenty - five per cent . on his liability , 66 as consideration for the recovery of the horse , 92.
Pagina 93
... cent . from falling on his own shoulders : the owner of the horse would also be pleased , and so would all his honest neighbours , for they would say to each other " So , neighbour , such an one has got his horse again ; " and they ...
... cent . from falling on his own shoulders : the owner of the horse would also be pleased , and so would all his honest neighbours , for they would say to each other " So , neighbour , such an one has got his horse again ; " and they ...
Pagina 168
... cent . , and for 61 years an annuity also of 47. 11s . per cent . on the amount of interest ; and this usurious interest is to be kept up until each hundred pounds borrowed is repaid by two hundred pounds , or that government can redeem ...
... cent . , and for 61 years an annuity also of 47. 11s . per cent . on the amount of interest ; and this usurious interest is to be kept up until each hundred pounds borrowed is repaid by two hundred pounds , or that government can redeem ...
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Pagina 149 - Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Pagina 218 - ... they are indescribably propitious, auspicious, and cheering. They presage the coming of that glorious future, when " all shall know the Lord, from the least to the greatest," and when " there shall be none to harm or destroy