A Select Collection of Early English Tracts on Commerce

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Political Economy Club, 1856 - 663 strán (strany)
 

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Strana 273 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses. Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Strana 126 - ... wares for our use and Consumptions to the value of twenty hundred thousand pounds : By this order duly kept in our trading, we may rest assured that the Kingdom shall be enriched yearly two hundred thousand pounds, which must be brought to us in so much Treasure ; because that part of our stock which is not returned to us in wares must necessarily be brought home in treasure.
Strana 125 - ... purchase taken from some other Nations, yet these are things uncertain and of small consideration when they happen. The ordinary means therefore to...
Strana 208 - Yet all these actions can work no other effects in the course of trade than is declared in this discourse. For so much Treasure only will be brought in or carried out of a Commonwealth, as the Forraign Trade doth over or under ballance in value. And this must come to pass by a Necessity beyond all resistance.
Strana 209 - Trade, which is, The great Revenue of the King, the honour of the Kingdom, The Noble profession of the Merchant, The School of our Arts, The supply of our wants. The employment of our poor, The improvement of our Lands, The Nursery of our Mariners, The walls of the Kingdoms, The Means of our Treasure, The Sinews of our wars, The terror of our Enemies.
Strana 585 - By this we taste the spices of Arabia, yet never feel the scorching sun which brings them forth ; we shine in silks which our hands have never wrought ; we drink of vineyards which we never planted. The Treasures of those mines are ours in which we have never...
Strana 73 - Neither doth their industry rest here, for they buy cotton wool in London, that comes first from Cyprus and Smyrna, and at home worke the same, and perfect it into fustians...
Strana 513 - That money is a merchandise, whereof there may be a glut, as well as a scarcity, and that even to an inconvenience. "That a people cannot want money to serve the ordinary dealing, and more than enough they will not have.
Strana 206 - Impost, and petty charges only deducted. Lastly, there must be good notice taken of all the great losses which we receive at Sea in our Shipping either outward or homeward bound : for the value of the one is to be deducted from our Exportations, and the value of the other is to be added to our Importations : for to lose and to consume doth produce one and the same reckoning.
Strana 513 - The loss of a trade with one nation is not that only, separately considered, but so much of the trade of the world rescinded and lost, for all is combined together.

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